GLSA: ypserv

[Daniel Ahlberg <aliz () gentoo org>]

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200210-010
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PACKAGE : ypserv
SUMMARY : information leak
DATE    : 2002-10-28 14:10 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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Thorsten Kukuck discovered a problem in the ypserv program which is
part of the Network Information Services (NIS).  A memory leak in all
versions of ypserv prior to 2.5 is remotely exploitable.  When a
malicious user could request a non-existing map the server will leak
parts of an old domainname and mapname.

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-nds/ypserv-1.3.12 and earlier update their systems as follows:

emerge rsync
emerge ypserv
emerge clean

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aliz () gentoo org - GnuPG key is available at www.gentoo.org/~aliz
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