[LI] SuSE Security Announcement

[Thomas Biege <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

FYI -- Raju

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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@xxxxxxx
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Type Bits/KeyID    Date       User ID
pub  2048/3D25D3D9 1999/03/06 SuSE Security Team <security@xxxxxxx>

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