metadata/glsa/glsa-200502-05.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200502-05">
  <title>Newspost: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A buffer overflow can be exploited to crash Newspost remotely and
    potentially execute arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">newspost</product>
  <announced>February 03, 2005</announced>
  <revised>February 21, 2005: 02</revised>
  <bug>78530</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-nntp/newspost" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="rge">2.0-r1</unaffected>
      <unaffected range="ge">2.1.1-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.1.1-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Newspost is a Usenet News binary autoposter.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Niels Heinen has discovered a buffer overflow in the socket_getline()
    function of Newspost, which can be triggered by providing long strings
    that do not end with a newline character.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could setup a malicious NNTP server and entice a
    Newspost user to post to it, leading to the crash of the Newspost
    process and potentially the execution of arbitrary code with the rights
    of the Newspost user.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Newspost users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-nntp/newspost-2.0-r1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2005-0101">CAN-2005-0101</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Wed,  2 Feb 2005 15:47:51 +0000">
    DerCorny
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Wed,  2 Feb 2005 17:29:13 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
</glsa>