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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : stunnel
SUMMARY : File descriptor leak and SIGCHLD DoS vulnerabilities
DATE : 2003-09-05 18:09:00
ID : CLA-2003:736
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 7.0, 8, 9

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DESCRIPTION
Stunnel is a wrapper for network connections. It can be used to
tunnel an unencrypted network connection over a secure connection
(encrypted using SSL or TLS) or to provide a secure means of
connecting to services that do not natively support encryption.

This update fixes two vulnerabilities that affect stunnel versions
shipped with Conectiva Linux:

1. SIGCHLD Denial of Service (CAN-2002-1563)[1]
Henrik Eriksson found[2] a race in the code that handles the SIGCHLD
signal. This vulnerability affects stunnel when configured to listen
for incoming connections (instead of being invoked by inetd) and to
start a new child process to handle each new connection. A remote
attacker can exploit this vulnerability to bring the tunneled service
down.

2. File descriptor leak (CAN-2003-0740)[3]
Steve Grubb found[4] a file descriptor leak vulnerability in versions
prior to 3.26 of stunnel that allows a local attacker to hijack the
stunnel server.

Since this update brings a new version of stunnel (3.26), several
other fixes and minor changes are included as well[5].

SOLUTION
All stunnel users should upgrade.

Please note that after the upgrade all instances of stunnel and all
active network connections being served by it must be restarted
manually.


REFERENCES:
1.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2002-1563
2.http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=stunnel-users&m=103600188215117&w=2
3.http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/335996
4.http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2003-0740
5.http://www.stunnel.org/news/

UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/RPMS/stunnel-3.26-1U70_1cl.i386.
rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/7.0/SRPMS/stunnel-3.26-1U70_1cl.src.
rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/RPMS/stunnel-3.26-1U80_1cl.i386.rp
m
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/8/SRPMS/stunnel-3.26-1U80_1cl.src.rp
m
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/RPMS/stunnel-3.26-21517U90_1cl.i38
6.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/SRPMS/stunnel-3.26-21517U90_1cl.sr
c.rpm

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
The apt tool can be used to perform RPM packages upgrades:

- run: apt-get update
- after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

Detailed instructions reagarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en

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All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en
Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en

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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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Copyright (c) 2003 Conectiva Inc.
http://www.conectiva.com

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