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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3956-1 (connman - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Security consultants in NRI Secure Technologies discovered a stack overflow vulnerability in ConnMan, a network manager for embedded devices. An attacker with control of the DNS responses to the DNS proxy in ConnMan might crash the service and, in same cases, remotely execute arbitrary commands in the host running the service.
Affected Software
Affected Software
connman on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-1.2+deb8u1. For the stable distribution (stretch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.33-3+deb9u1. For the testing distribution (buster), this problem has been fixed in version 1.33-3+deb9u1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.35-1. We recommend that you upgrade your connman packages.