Security Advisory Updated Pan packages fix denial of service vulnerability

Advisory: RHSA-2003:311-06
Type: Security Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2003-11-24
Last updated on: 2003-11-24
Affected Products: Red Hat Linux 7.1
Red Hat Linux 7.2
Red Hat Linux 7.3
Red Hat Linux 8.0
Red Hat Linux 9
OVAL: N/A
CVEs (cve.mitre.org): CVE-2003-0855

Details

Updated Pan packages that close a denial of service vulnerability are now
available.

Pan is a Gnome/GTK+ newsreader.

A bug in Pan versions prior to 0.13.4 can cause Pan to crash when parsing
an article header containing a very long author email address. This bug
causes a crash (denial of service) but is not further exploitable. The
Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2003-0855 to this issue.

Users of Pan are advised to upgrade to these erratum packages, which
contain a backported patch correcting this issue.

Red Hat would like to thank Kasper Dupont for alerting us to this issue and
to Charles Kerr for providing the patch.


Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains the
desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

If up2date fails to connect to Red Hat Network due to SSL Certificate
Errors, you need to install a version of the up2date client with an updated
certificate. The latest version of up2date is available from the Red Hat
FTP site and may also be downloaded directly from the RHN website:

https://rhn.redhat.com/help/latest-up2date.pxt

Updated packages

Red Hat Linux 7.1

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/SRPMS/pan-0.9.7-2.71.src.rpm
Missing file
    f7ae5c253d3c673e940d080533ea0da2
 
IA-32:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/pan-0.9.7-2.71.i386.rpm
Missing file
    678e7f0f2ea996e3b8949b3bb607554b
 
Red Hat Linux 7.2

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/pan-0.11.4-1.src.rpm
Missing file
    64d8752453a9e0437b4dd7bbb2c79504
 
IA-32:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/i386/pan-0.11.4-1.i386.rpm
Missing file
    391d0c2e9eb7046f7b53496cc1ae0a4b
 
IA-64:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/ia64/pan-0.11.4-1.ia64.rpm
Missing file
    9faccc8b01b90ca615e0c68f5b67b738
 
Red Hat Linux 7.3

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS/pan-0.11.4-1.src.rpm
Missing file
    64d8752453a9e0437b4dd7bbb2c79504
 
IA-32:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/i386/pan-0.11.4-1.i386.rpm
Missing file
    391d0c2e9eb7046f7b53496cc1ae0a4b
 
Red Hat Linux 8.0

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/SRPMS/pan-0.13.4-1.src.rpm
Missing file
    5e7a39ef2cc9782432e688719c83b078
 
IA-32:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/8.0/en/os/i386/pan-0.13.4-1.i386.rpm
Missing file
    e3e3161bcb604f09b07b15c1b1fb817d
 
Red Hat Linux 9

SRPMS:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/SRPMS/pan-0.14.2-1.9.src.rpm
Missing file
    d05d62893b42a03b570f8e60c2f3ef39
 
IA-32:
ftp://updates.redhat.com/9/en/os/i386/pan-0.14.2-1.9.i386.rpm
Missing file
    7027ab2a49f4bb0aa4efa7415f0bd6cb
 

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

107519 - CAN-2003-0855 Pan crash on long email address


References


Keywords

DoS


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