Re: [Secure-testing-team] Re: Bug#322273: [CAN-2005-2456]: XFRM array index buffer overflow
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 11:47:12AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Horms wrote:
> > As for which package to log a bug against, or cretion of duplicate bugs.
> > To be honest it doesn't matter. If you email
> > debian-kernel@lists.debian.org, then you should get a response,
> > regardless of if you open a bug in the BTS or not.
> > CCing secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org if its a bug testing
> > and team@security.debian.org if its a bug instable is also a good idea.
> >
> > When we find problems, we just fix them. The BTS is really a bit to
> > noisy for us to use it to track bugs effectively. Obviously this
> > is a bit of a problem, but what I am trying to say is adding a bug
> > to the BTS just emails debian-kernel anyway, and security bugs
> > sent there are acted on. So my my advice is tho email the addresses
> > above, and if you want to open a bug, just open it against any
> > of the above packages that have the vulnerability.
>
> Hi Horms,
> there has been a CVE assignment for an overflow in xdr.c, which can be
> exploited by crafted data in the nfsacl protocol: CAN-2005-2500
> Please see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-2500
> for some links to patches. I suspect it is already fixed in kernel-2.6,
> but 2.6.8 and 2.4.27 might need backports.
Thanks,
I don't think I have seen that one before, so its probably
not in 2.6.8 or 2.4.27. I will look into adding it.
--
Horms
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