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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200509-14
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Severity: Normal
Title: Zebedee: Denial of Service vulnerability
Date: September 20, 2005
Bugs: #105115
ID: 200509-14
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Synopsis
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A bug in Zebedee allows a remote attacker to perform a Denial of
Service attack.
Background
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Zebedee is an application that establishes an encrypted, compressed
tunnel for TCP/IP or UDP data transfer between two systems.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-misc/zebedee < 2.5.3 *>= 2.4.1-r1
>= 2.5.3
Description
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"Shiraishi.M" reported that Zebedee crashes when "0" is received as the
port number in the protocol option header.
Impact
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By performing malformed requests a remote attacker could cause Zebedee
to crash.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All Zebedee users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose net-misc/zebedee
References
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[ 1 ] BugTraq ID 14796
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14796
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200509-14.xml
Concerns?
=========
Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
=======
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The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
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