4497542 1999-11-17 19:17 /144 rader/ Postmaster
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 08:28:15 +0100
Reply-To: Thomas Biege <thomas@SUSE.DE>
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From: Thomas Biege <thomas@SUSE.DE>
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SuSE Security Announcement - thttpd
Package: thttpd 1.90a - 2.04
Date: Tue Nov 16 19:44:14 CET 1999
Affected SuSE versions: 6.2 and 6.3
Vulnerability Type: remote compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all unix systems using the thttpd-server
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A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are using
this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected as
well, please contact your vendor for information about this issue.
Please note, that that we provide this information on an "as-is" basis only.
There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any direct, indirect or
incidental damage arising from this information or the installation of
the update package.
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1. Problem Description
The thttpd web server doesn't do proper bounds checking in the date parsing
function tdate_parse().
2. Impact
By overflowing a static buffer in tdate_parse() an attacker could remotely
execute commands on the thttpd host with the permissions of thttpd.
3. Solution
Updated the package from our FTP server.
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Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
160a166713f186a61b2111c45786e26a thttpd-2.04-31.i386.rpm (6.2)
4eb85acb72a30873842257cd923f9332 thttpd-2.04-31.i386.rpm (6.3)
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You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/thttpd-2.04-31.i386.rpm
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/thttpd-2.04-31.i386.rpm
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/de/support/download/updates/index.html
Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.suse.de/de/support/security/index.html
If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact
security@suse.de
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