USN-98-1: OpenSLP vulnerabilities
18 March 2005
openslp vulnerabilities
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 4.10
Software Description
Details
The SuSE Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in the OpenSLP server and client library. By sending specially crafted SLP packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the SLP server or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the “daemon” user. Likewise, a malicious SLP server could exploit the client library vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the SLP client application.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
- Ubuntu 4.10
- libslp1
- slpd
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.