metadata/glsa/glsa-200503-27.xml

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<glsa id="200503-27">
  <title>Xzabite dyndnsupdate: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Xzabite's dyndnsupdate software suffers from multiple vulnerabilities,
    potentially resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">dyndnsupdate</product>
  <announced>March 21, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>84659</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-misc/dyndnsupdate" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">0.6.15</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    dyndnsupdate is a dyndns.org data updater written by Fredrik "xzabite"
    Haglund.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Toby Dickenson discovered that dyndnsupdate suffers from multiple
    overflows.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker, posing as a dyndns.org server, could execute
    arbitrary code with the rights of the user running dyndnsupdate.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    Currently, there is no released version of dyndnsupdate that contains a
    fix for these issues. The original xzabite.org distribution site is
    dead, the code contains several other problems and more secure
    alternatives exist, such as the net-dns/ddclient package. Therefore,
    the dyndnsupdate package has been hard-masked prior to complete removal
    from Portage, and current users are advised to unmerge the package:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --unmerge net-misc/dyndnsupdate</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0830">CVE-2005-0830</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Mon, 21 Mar 2005 09:32:52 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Mon, 21 Mar 2005 14:30:08 +0000">
    koon
  </metadata>
</glsa>