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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 17:57:52 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman <wichert@soil.nl>
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of nfs-server fixes remote exploit

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Debian Security Advisory                             security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
November 11, 1999
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The version of nfs-server that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 had a
buffer overflow in fh_buildpath(). It assumed that the total length of a path
would never exceed (PATH_MAX_NAME_MAX). With a read/write exported directory
people could created longes path and cause a bufferoverflow.

This has been addressed in version 2.2beta37-1slink.1, and we recommend you
upgrade your nfs-server package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
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  This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
  680x0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: 277c6daafd5b6f3947908a40761473d1
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: c9bcdd19e29055d420e1c50dee6425d4
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nfs-server_2.2beta37.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: afe0f88c48add25f304a387ae4fb40ba

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5e9d134fcc8834e5cf6a7dedb2394f7b

  Intel ia32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: f5c4f2cc59101dc15bfc66530cb4d9e1

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 672a8509a53f52d71efcde29b37780aa

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/nfs-server_2.2beta37-1slink.1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: c882894e79ede2c9af4d52566db59971


  These files will be moved into
  ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/ soon.


For not yet released architectures please refer to the appropriate
directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/ .

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