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Debian Security Advisory DSA 063-1 (xinetd)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.5

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to xinetd announced via advisory DSA 063-1.

Insight

Insight

zen-parse reported on bugtraq that there is a possible buffer overflow in the logging code from xinetd. This could be triggered by using a fake identd that returns special replies when xinetd does an ident request. Another problem is that xinetd sets it umask to 0. As a result any programs that xinetd start that are not careful with file permissions will create world-writable files. Both problems have been fixed in version 2.1.8.8.p3-1.1 .

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20063-1

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