SUSE Security Announcement: gaim (SuSE-SA:2004:004)

Posted by dave on Jan 29, 2004 4:36 AM EDT
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"Stefan Esser found 12 vulnerabilities in gaim that can lead to a remote system compromise with the privileges of the user running GAIM."

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SUSE Security Announcement

Package: gaim Announcement-ID: SuSE-SA:2004:004 Date: Thrusday, Jan 29th 2004 10:30 MET Affected products: 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0 SuSE Linux Desktop 1.0 Vulnerability Type: remote system compromise Severity (1-10): 5 SUSE default package: no Cross References:

Content of this advisory: 1) security vulnerability resolved: - two buffer overflows problem description, discussion, solution and upgrade information 2) pending vulnerabilities, solutions, workarounds: - kernel binaries for SLES8 AMD64 - mc - mod_gzip - tripwire - XDM (XFree86, xf86) - 3ddiag - mod_auth_shadow - cvsup - nmap - netpbm - zebra - quagga - tcpdump - mod_python 3) standard appendix (further information)

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1) problem description, brief discussion, solution, upgrade information

Gaim is a multi-protocol instant-messaging client. Stefan Esser found 12 vulnerabilities in gaim that can lead to a remote system compromise with the privileges of the user running GAIM. The GAIM package that SUSE LINUX ships is affected by just two of these bug: - Yahoo Packet Parser Overflow - HTTP Proxy Connect Overflow

The first vulnerability is easy to exploit and results in a classic stack overflow which can be used to execute arbitrary code. The latter vulnerability requires the gaim client use a HTTP proxy under the control of the attacker. The exploitation of this bug results in arbitrary code execution too.

There is no known workaround.

Please download the update package for your distribution and verify its integrity by the methods listed in section 3) of this announcement. Then, to apply the update use the command "rpm -Fhv file.rpm". Our maintenance customers are being notified individually. The packages are being offered to install from the maintenance web.

Intel i386 Platform:

SuSE-9.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/gaim-0.67-65.i586.rpm 09f8d12dd52e246cf32dca8ad3374f39 patch rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/i586/gaim-0.67-65.i586.patch.rpm 3a633e341b9e56facdbe0250b55dd33a source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/9.0/rpm/src/gaim-0.67-65.src.rpm 5ee6a86077c0297a64815532782f7a54

SuSE-8.2: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/gaim-0.59.8-60.i586.rpm 7a269744304f72bf951c7bd6974560f2 patch rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/i586/gaim-0.59.8-60.i586.patch.rpm e7b18f0da02c1c4392dc1b03e835a827 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.2/rpm/src/gaim-0.59.8-60.src.rpm ae7d7b1c9735696244547a0d6a5ee92e

SuSE-8.1: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/gaim-0.59-158.i586.rpm 22b1d4be5737906f8ff0975918279034 patch rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/i586/gaim-0.59-158.i586.patch.rpm 7644020869e92cc980b881efebf9d617 source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.1/rpm/src/gaim-0.59-158.src.rpm cd1532f71a79ed32d016d456a844ff4b

SuSE-8.0: ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/gnm3/gaim-0.50-187.i386.rpm 7dcb581b78bf8ab61e82bf0836a4357e patch rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/gnm3/gaim-0.50-187.i386.patch.rpm 5a6f596538edc56e0b3a70a23200c21e source rpm(s): ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/8.0/zq1/gaim-0.50-187.src.rpm d38c8da629941eecef7f75d6a5ea9e80

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2) Pending vulnerabilities in SUSE Distributions and Workarounds:

- kernel binaries for SLES8 AMD64 Due to a human failure the kernel binaries of SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 for AMD64 lack the fix described in SuSE-SA:2004:003. The kernel-source packages and the packages for IA64 are *not* affected. New packages are available at our maintenance-web.

- mc By using a special combination of links in archive files it is possible to execute arbitrary commands while mc tries to open it in its VFS. New packages are available on our FTP servers.

- mod_gzip (apache-contrib) The apache module mod_gzip is vulnerable to remote code execution while running in debug-mode. We do not ship this module in debug-mode but future versions will include the fix. Additionally the mod_gzip code was audited to fix more possibly security related bugs. After more testing a new apache-contrib RPM package will be released.

- tripwire Tripwire is a file integrity checker. The version of tripwire included with SuSE Linux 9.0 crashs when a requested file does not exists. New packages are available on our FTP servers.

- XDM (XFree86, xf86) A missing check for failure conditions in the PAM code of XDM can lead to local root access in conjunction with Kerberos or other authentication methods. New packages are available on our FTP servers.

- 3ddiag Some 3ddiag scripts handle temporary files in an insecure manner. Thanks to Stefan Nordhausen for reporting some of these issues. New packages are available on our FTP servers.

- mod_auth_shadow (apache-contrib) This apache module ignores account expiration dates. The update will be released together with mod_gzip.

- cvsup cvsup uses a library path which is world-writeable. This behavior can lead to local privilege escalation. Thanks to Matthias Andree for notifying us. Upcoming SuSE Linux versions have an automatic check enabled to detect these types of bugs. New packages are available on our FTP servers.

- nmap Due to a bad interaction between kernel and user-space for pre- calculated IP checksums nmap did not work on SUSE LINUX 9.0. New packages are available on our FTP servers.

- netpbm Some tools in the netpbm suite create files in an insecure manner that



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