SETI@home Client Program Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
FreeBSD have released an advisory (FreeBSD-SN-03:02) to address this issue.

The vendor has addressed this issue in version 3.08. Users are advised to upgrade their clients as soon as possible.

Gentoo Linux has released an advisory. Users who have installed app-sci/setiathome are advised to upgrade to setiathome-3.08 by issuing the following commands:

emerge sync
emerge setiathome
emerge clean

Fix:


SETI SETI@home 3.3

SETI SETI@home 3.4

SETI SETI@home 3.5

SETI SETI@home 3.6

SETI SETI@home 3.7


 

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