Debian Security Advisory DSA 492-1                     security@debian.org 
Debian -- Security Information                              Matt Zimmerman
April 18th, 2004                          Debian -- Debian security FAQ 
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Package        : iproute
Vulnerability  : denial of service
Problem-Type   : local
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids        : CAN-2003-0856
Debian Bug     : 242994

Herbert Xu reported that local users could cause a denial of service
against iproute, a set of tools for controlling networking in Linux
kernels.  iproute uses the netlink interface to communicate with the
kernel, but failed to verify that the messages it received came from
the kernel (rather than from other user processes).

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 20010824-8woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your iproute package.

Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
        will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
        will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:      583 4ddfda116fcaa5670bd0a395ce62c249
      
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      Size/MD5 checksum:   140139 b05a4e375d9468be3a1dd3f0e83daee8

  Alpha architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   535862 84d99c4199f8ae7eab695f8e06a9de6b

  ARM architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   509116 d4e7b52ca059ab99b67a9f01e07ccb1e

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   499718 194a49253bf81cdcf702f935e2b35534

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   570038 180ddee3ed7373989d54a2b3783c58f2

  HP Precision architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   525956 30b521f7417acb9150cd2b79f065734d

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   489736 196339f8c47b861aff2c110e5405ecc1

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   512874 2781925dd48d9bb9cb8b948e397b2947

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   513570 b61d21209d3cd1bf6b828396ef347676

  PowerPC architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   507942 cfa15b75474d3faa2bdaeb1b3c399d99

  IBM S/390 architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   503396 13e689f21473365267f7f73b44b05c2f

  Sun Sparc architecture:

      
      Size/MD5 checksum:   515030 fbc32ebc11a4cb14b98154b6cb257c8c

  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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