Gentoo: monkeyd Buffer overflow vulnerability
A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Monkey's handling of formssubmitted with the POST request method
Summary
- - --------------------------------------------------------------------- GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200304-07 - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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- From advisory:
"A buffer overflow vulnerability exists in Monkey's handling of forms submitted with the POST request method. The unchecked buffer lies in the PostMethod() procedure."
Read the full advisory at: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=105094204204166&w=2
SOLUTION
It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running net-www/monkeyd upgrade to monkeyd-0.6.3 as follows:
emerge sync emerge monkeyd emerge clean
Resolution
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PACKAGE : monkeyd
SUMMARY :
DATE : 2003-04-28 08:43 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : =snort-0.6.2
CVE :
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