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GNU userv Service Program Environment Corruption Vulnerability
Solution: The userv maintainer suggests upgrading to userv 1.0.1. If the upgrade is not available, a patch can be applied. (From the Bugtraq message): Index: servexec.c =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/src/CVS/userv/servexec.c,v retrieving revision 1.13 retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 --- servexec.c 2000/03/06 18:14:46 1.13 +++ servexec.c 2000/07/27 00:08:34 1.14 @@ -266,7 +266,8 @@ fdarray[fd].holdfd= -1; } for (fd=0; fd<fdarrayused; fd++) { - if (fdarray[fd].realfd < fdarrayused) fdarray[fdarray[fd].realfd].holdfd= fd; + if (fdarray[fd].realfd < fdarrayused && fdarray[fd].realfd >= 0) + fdarray[fdarray[fd].realfd].holdfd= fd; } for (fd=0; fd<fdarrayused; fd++) { realfd= fdarray[fd].realfd; Additionally, updates are available for Debian Linux. (From the Debian advisory): Debian 2.1: Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/userv_1.0.1.0slink.dsc MD5 checksum: 473a8fe477d20614aad97f538896969a http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/userv_1.0.1.0slink.tar.gz MD5 checksum: 40b052547e2ea9fa69a12ee24dfe2af7 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/userv_1.0.1.0slink_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 4934d1163e2e5fbb2d74d5a949089aa7 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/userv_1.0.1.0slink_i386.deb MD5 checksum: ebf8d6cd431e94b6e731636d1d61440e Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/userv_1.0.1.0slink_m68k.deb MD5 checksum: b59d78066362bce1f91005891958c362 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/userv_1.0.1.0slink_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: ab880dac8965d99ca64044c0ef438975 Debian 2.2pre Potato: Source archives: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/userv_1.0.1.1potato.dsc MD5 checksum: 1a92258cecdb878ddd2f58cd03bd59b1 http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/userv_1.0.1.1potato.tar.gz MD5 checksum: ddf8df51026a1b880dc95f9ca04a6deb Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-alpha/userv_1.0.1.1potato_alpha.deb MD5 checksum: 81d800fb0b29ef48f8b8bbc20e2b2ec1 Intel ia32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/userv_1.0.1.1potato_i386.deb MD5 checksum: 82752bd8dcc7ec1e187b6d9cfe7403d0 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-sparc/userv_1.0.1.1potato_sparc.deb MD5 checksum: 019430e9ffdff374a87e0003da16b97b GNU userv 1.0 .0 |
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