A vulnerability was discovered in libnids, a library used to analyze
IP network traffic, whereby a carefully crafted TCP datagram could
cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user executing a program which uses libnids
(such as dsniff).
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.16-3woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your libnids package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Hash: SHA1
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 410-1 security (at) debian (dot) org [email concealed]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
January 5th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : libnids
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0850
A vulnerability was discovered in libnids, a library used to analyze
IP network traffic, whereby a carefully crafted TCP datagram could
cause memory corruption and potentially execute arbitrary code with
the privileges of the user executing a program which uses libnids
(such as dsniff).
For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 1.16-3woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your libnids package.
Upgrade Instructions
- --------------------
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3
woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 603 c9e8989f8cb7d6706d512f8c34519443
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16-3
woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 7053 5db55f605de05b18238c8d8f1e0d5eaa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids_1.16.o
rig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 72309 95497093d0de330be12ddc658ad7decc
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 53924 e26ca5f38905360771ed53e406cfd551
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 21948 05c1ba0882f274c0e91b366158c3aba6
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49500 2861aab1d3425667206a39fe1a18236e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18684 b56d1950c95bb179f70216b1a2d18659
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 47424 0a0ee5573c7f849a0c4b8a6c60c6a080
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 17074 9b0358382397ba1d8b0485dede78892f
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 59322 7a024fb46ce17e1ee6f3c0e201627c42
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 28432 8934206dbb404dc64d4c87d9255d5638
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52302 711d6f7c949a60984ee7d30fb8894160
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 20930 62ad021f6c7767cc8a4454096ccd1d1d
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 46716 feaeeac9a1f2762313d8e59f313373e1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 16674 4cb2fd1cdbbf5900474f4329bab3bfbc
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52226 e0abaa180510965d91faed6b3cf14aae
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18658 731f3f124e0f50dd0f2ad12edddacebc
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52404 588dc4b4cc9526f43dbe758ac42a5fa7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18894 f138fa9a58029d8d4045214f689f433a
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50712 8d474420d3857da2dcf1e513e8c3a05f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18544 6c2ee0a24d579e058ec3d33f6da60c7b
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 48488 bc1a016c012276feca11552206bad715
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 18762 b4d3b1bc6431b57a3fc9e90bde10b439
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids-dev_1.
16-3woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 49894 72473f1e07a0e37d5ba5acdd7c6b7d42
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libn/libnids/libnids1_1.16-
3woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 21560 661ca1cb95c69e40cca1fc6373ae39a8
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce (at) lists.debian (dot) org [email concealed]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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