-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- _____________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ 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. _____________________________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________________________ 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) ______________________________________________________________________________ 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 ______________________________________________________________________________ SuSE has got two free security mailing list services to which any interested party may subscribe: use-security@suse.com - moderated and for general/linux/SuSE security discussions. 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