Advisories
Mandriva Advisories
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| Problem Description |
A vulnerability was discovered by Jan Knutar in leafnode that
Mark Brown pointed out could be used in a Denial of Service
attack. This vulnerability causes leafnode to go into an
infinite loop with 100% CPU use when an article that has been
crossposed to several groups, one of which is the prefix of
another, is requested by it's Message-ID.
This vulnerability was introduced in 1.9.20 and fixed upstream
in version 1.9.30. Only Mandrake Linux 9.0 is affected by this,
but version 1.9.19 (which shipped with Mandrake Linux 8.2) is
receiving an update due to critical bugs in it that can corrupt
parts of its news spool under certain circumstances.
| Updated Packages |
Mandrakelinux 8.2
a9c3f6f4198c88e71f7c78281d6ead7b 8.2/RPMS/leafnode-1.9.31-1.1mdk.i586.rpm 25f0be374ababf45db444a9b64ab1a98 8.2/SRPMS/leafnode-1.9.31-1.1mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 8.2/PPC
c39ab8855cbb4d0727c796242edda60c ppc/8.2/RPMS/leafnode-1.9.31-1.1mdk.ppc.rpm 25f0be374ababf45db444a9b64ab1a98 ppc/8.2/SRPMS/leafnode-1.9.31-1.1mdk.src.rpm
Mandrakelinux 9.0
4749ee927caa55f15adddadd473a3d12 9.0/RPMS/leafnode-1.9.31-1.1mdk.i586.rpm 25f0be374ababf45db444a9b64ab1a98 9.0/SRPMS/leafnode-1.9.31-1.1mdk.src.rpm
| References |
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104127108823436&w=2
| Upgrade |
To upgrade automatically, use MandrivaUpdate.
| Verification |
Please verify the update prior to upgrading to ensure the integrity of the downloaded package. You can do this with the command :
rpm --checksig package.rpm
You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.
If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.