Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1587-1 mtr -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
26 May 2008
Affected Packages:
mtr
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2357.
More information:

Adam Zabrocki discovered that under certain circumstances mtr, a full screen ncurses and X11 traceroute tool, could be tricked into executing arbitrary code via overly long reverse DNS records.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 0.71-2etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.73-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your mtr package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_alpha.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_amd64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_arm.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_hppa.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_i386.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_ia64.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_mips.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_mipsel.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_powerpc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_s390.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr_0.71-2etch1_sparc.deb
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mtr/mtr-tiny_0.71-2etch1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.