From: Immunix Security Team <security@wirex.com>
To: security-alerts@linuxsecurity.com, bugtraq@securityfocus.com,
linux-security-announce@seifried.org, immunix-announce@immunix.org
Subject: [linsec] ImmunixOS 7.0 update for xinetd
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 18:31:09 -0700
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Immunix OS Security Advisory
Packages updated: xinetd
Affected products: Immunix OS 7.0
Bugs fixed: immunix/1698
Date: Wed Aug 29 2001
Advisory ID: IMNX-2001-70-033-01
Author: Seth Arnold <sarnold@wirex.com>
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Description:
Solar Designer has audited the xinetd 2.3.0 source code for many
different possible vulnerabilities; the 2.3.1 release represents his
patches being merged into the standard xinetd source. His audit
was fairly thorough and found too many problems to report them
all here. 2.3.2 fixes a heap overrun, with the fix due to Trond
Eivind Glomsrød. Steve Grubb contributed many other fixes, though
none appear to be directly security-related.
Suffice it to say that it is only a matter of time before the
problems fixed here are turned into exploits; we recommend all
users running xinetd upgrade soon.
Package names and locations:
Precompiled binary packages for Immunix 7.0 are available at:
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/RPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.i386.rpm
Source package for Immunix 7.0 is available at:
http://download.immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/SRPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.src.rpm
Immunix OS 7.0 md5sums:
654c1aa4337fbb5752e80d173b186266 RPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.i386.rpm
2e992bf61ab5439f18e3740a502dc050 SRPMS/xinetd-2.3.3-1_imnx.src.rpm
GPG verification:
Our public key is available at <http://wirex.com/security/GPG_KEY>.
*** NOTE *** This key is different from the one used in advisories
IMNX-2001-70-020-01 and earlier.
Online version of all Immunix 6.2 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/6.2/updates/
Online version of all Immunix 7.0-beta updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0-beta/updates/
Online version of all Immunix 7.0 updates and advisories:
http://immunix.org/ImmunixOS/7.0/updates/
NOTE:
Ibiblio is graciously mirroring our updates, so if the links above are
slow, please try:
ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/immunix/
or one of the many mirrors available at:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html
ImmunixOS 6.2 is no longer officially supported.
Contact information:
To report vulnerabilities, please contact security@wirex.com. WireX
attempts to conform to the RFP vulnerability disclosure protocol
<http://www.wiretrip.net/rfp/policy.html>.