Category Archives: Debian

Debian Security Advisories

DSA-3228 ppp – security update

Emanuele Rocca discovered that ppp, a daemon implementing the
Point-to-Point Protocol, was subject to a buffer overflow when
communicating with a RADIUS server. This would allow unauthenticated
users to cause a denial-of-service by crashing the daemon.

[BSA-103] Security Update for shibboleth-sp

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Matthew Vernon uploaded new packages for shibboleth-sp which fixed the
following security problems:

CVE-2015-2684
  A denial of service vulnerability was found in the Shibboleth (a
  federated identity framework) Service Provider. When processing
  certain malformed SAML messages generated by an authenticated
  attacker, the daemon could crash.

For the wheezy-backports distribution the problems have been fixed in
version 2.5.3+dfsg-2~bpo70+1.
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DSA-3221 das-watchdog – security update

Adam Sampson discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of the
XAUTHORITY environment variable in das-watchdog, a watchdog daemon to
ensure a realtime process won’t hang the machine. A local user can
exploit this flaw to escalate his privileges and execute arbitrary
code as root.

DSA-3220 libtasn1-3 – security update

Hanno Boeck discovered a stack-based buffer overflow in the
asn1_der_decoding function in Libtasn1, a library to manage ASN.1
structures. A remote attacker could take advantage of this flaw to cause
an application using the Libtasn1 library to crash, or potentially to
execute arbitrary code.