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FreeBSD-SN-02:04 Security Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: security issues in ports
Announced: 2002-06-19
I. Introduction
Several ports in the FreeBSD Ports Collection are affected by security
issues. These are listed below with references and affected versions.
All versions given refer to the FreeBSD port/package version numbers.
The listed vulnerabilities are not specific to FreeBSD unless
otherwise noted.
These ports are not installed by default, nor are they ``part of
FreeBSD'' as such. The FreeBSD Ports Collection contains thousands of
third-party applications in a ready-to-install format. FreeBSD makes
no claim about the security of these third-party applications. See
for more information about the
FreeBSD Ports Collection.
II. Ports
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Port name: apache13, apache13-modssl, apache13-ssl,
apache13+ipv6, apache13-fp, apache2
Affected: versions < apache-2.0.39 (apache2)
versions < apache-1.3.26 (apache13)
versions < apache+mod_ssl-1.3.26+2.8.9 (apache13-modssl)
All versions (others)
Status: Fixed (apache2, apache13, apache13-modssl)
Not fixed (others)
Denial-of-service involving chunked encoding.
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Port name: bind9
Affected: versions < bind9-9.2.1
Status: Fixed
Denial-of-service vulnerability in named.
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Port name: courier-imap
Affected: versions < courier-imap-1.4.3_1
Status: Fixed
Remote denial-of-service attack (CPU utilization).
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Port name: ethereal
Affected: versions < ethereal-0.9.4
Status: Fixed
Buffer overflows in SMB, X11, DNS, and GIOP dissectors.
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Port name: fakebo
Affected: versions < fakebo-0.4.1_1
Status: Fixed
Format string vulnerability.
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Port name: fragroute
Affected: versions < fragroute-1.2_1
Status: Fixed
The distribution file with MD5 checksum 65edbfc51f8070517f14ceeb8f721075
was trojaned.
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Port name: ghostscript-gnu
Affected: versions < ghostscript-6.53
Status: Fixed
A PostScript file can cause arbitrary commands to be executed as
the user running ghostscript.
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Port name: icmpmonitor
Affected: versions < icmpmonitor-1.11_1
Status: Fixed
Format string vulnerability (syslog).
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Port name: imap-uw
Affected: All versions
Status: Not fixed
Locally exploitable stack buffer overflow when compiled with
WITH_RFC1730 (which is not the default).
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Port name: mnews
Affected: All versions
Status: Not fixed
Remotely exploitable buffer overflows.
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Port name: nn
Affected: versions < nn-6.6.2_1
Status: Fixed
Remotely exploitable format string vulnerability.
Reproduce using netcat:
perl -e 'printf("100 %s\n", "%x" x 800);' | nc -l -p 119
env NNTPSERVER="localhost" nn
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Port name: sharity-light
Affected: versions < sharity-light-1.2_1
Status: Fixed
Stack buffer overflow when copying the username and password from the
environment (variables USER, LOGNAME, and PASSWD). Reported by
Niels Heinen .
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Port name: slurp
Affected: versions < slurp-1.10_1
Status: Fixed
Remotely exploitable format string vulnerability.
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Port name: xchat
Affected: versions < xchat-1.8.9
Status: Fixed
An IRC server may execute arbitrary commands with the privileges
of the user running xchat.
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III. Upgrading Ports/Packages
To upgrade a fixed port/package, perform one of the following:
1) Upgrade your Ports Collection and rebuild and reinstall the port.
Several tools are available in the Ports Collection to make this
easier. See:
/usr/ports/devel/portcheckout
/usr/ports/misc/porteasy
/usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
2) Deinstall the old package and install a new package obtained from
[i386]
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/
Packages are not automatically generated for other architectures at
this time.
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FreeBSD Security Notices are communications from the Security Officer
intended to inform the user community about potential security issues,
such as bugs in the third-party applications found in the Ports
Collection, which will not be addressed in a FreeBSD Security
Advisory.
Feedback on Security Notices is welcome at .
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