Debian alert: New tinyproxy packages fix security vulnerability

Posted by dave on Aug 7, 2002 9:54 AM EDT
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The authors of tinyproxy, a lightweight HTTP proxy, discovered a bug in the handling of some invalid proxy requests. Under some circumstances, an invalid request may result in a allocated memory being freed twice. This can potentially result in the execution of arbitrary code.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 145-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
August 7th, 2002   
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Package        : tinyproxy
Vulnerability  : doubly freed memory
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
Bugtraq Id     : 4731

The authors of tinyproxy, a lightweight HTTP proxy, discovered a bug
in the handling of some invalid proxy requests.  Under some
circumstances, an invalid request may result in a allocated memory
being freed twice.  This can potentially result in the execution of
arbitrary code.

This problem has been fixed in version 1.4.3-2woody2 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 1.4.3-3 for the unstable
distribution (sid).  The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected by this problem.

We recommend that you upgrade your tinyproxy package immediately.

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

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      583 894dc6ee8c57988cae148ebae5e200bd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:    15774 43ed91e7b2980d06aea13a9d40c93e33
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   197813 609a1c7ac1928ba02303592bd83e2494

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    45240 da475742787600eac462897070bb7e45

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    39548 99bc9c2736384d2f0b41a774bceb6ab3

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    38758 591c6aa83eb191bd53f4f76caea330a4

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    52294 d254853e04d3cd3da6648517b41f8988

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    41984 24b947794fe0664d32f59bf1aabdb58f

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    37600 d427a112b79aa8763c76d7a47e95d3e4

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    41968 1e7a1ead7d24480252c6f0349283b55e

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    41980 554b74aa879936732d14e36f6c49e4ee

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    40340 ec9e7db429e09493a300b9a3c090821f

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    40214 6e5aa58c775df243ebcb36672ff9a429

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/t/tinyproxy/tinyproxy_1.4.3-2woody2_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    42620 b176631600bdb9a7ea821e54d007c7ee


  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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