Slackware security update: INN security update (SSA:2004-014-02)

Posted by dave on Jan 15, 2004 4:20 AM EDT
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These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade.



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[slackware-security] INN security update (SSA:2004-014-02)

INN (InterNetNews) is used to run a news (NNTP) server.

New INN packages are available for Slackware 9.0, 9.1, and -current. These have been upgraded to inn-2.4.1 to fix a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. All sites running INN should upgrade.

Here are the details from the Slackware 9.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ Wed Jan 14 11:58:58 PST 2004 patches/packages/inn-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to inn-2.4.1. From the inn-2.4.1 NEWS file: * SECURITY: Handle the special filing of control messages into per-type newsgroups more robust. This closes a potentially exploitable buffer overflow. Thanks to Dan Riley for his excellent bug report. (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+

WHERE TO FIND THE NEW PACKAGE: +-----------------------------+

Updated package for Slackware 9.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.0/patches/packages/inn-2.4.1-i386-1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware 9.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/packages/inn-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz

Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/extra/inn/inn-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz

MD5 SIGNATURES: +-------------+

Slackware 9.0 package: e8f68835dcb70cfa4f5b812352880bea inn-2.4.1-i386-1.tgz

Slackware 9.1 package: 7d7e8e8934bd53f7b2c884115078cd5d inn-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz

Slackware -current package: 0da5a48fee9b37789948f7030bd09d7e inn-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz

INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: +------------------------+

First, back up your config files in /etc/news and /var/lib/news. Shut down the news server with /etc/rc.d/rc.news stop. Upgrade the INN package with upgradepkg. Restore any custom config files (or edit the new ones). Restart the news server with /etc/rc.d/rc.news start.

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