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Debian Security Advisory DSA 2576-1 (trousers)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to trousers announced via advisory DSA 2576-1.
Insight
Insight
Andy Lutomirski discovered that tcsd (the TPM userspace daemon) was missing a of input validation. Using carefully crafted input, it can lead to a denial of service by making the daemon crash with a segmentation fault. For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.5-2+squeeze1. For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.9-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 0.3.9-1.
Solution
Solution
We recommend that you upgrade your trousers packages.