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ACM Network Protocol Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA9139
Release Date: 2003-06-30
Popularity: 8,266 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid

Software:ACM 5.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2002-0391


Description:
Debian has reported a vulnerability in ACM, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

ACM uses a network protocol based on an older version of SunRPC. However, last year an integer overflow in the "xdr_array" function was discovered in this version, which can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable system.

Solution:
Updated packages:

-- Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody --

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 593 7b97e94d274f4042c7092c677a399d1a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 14248 42f110d62edb95c352bb068d97833057
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1239047 c0768937733989eb4b10708a782eaf6a

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 583226 32bc02220b0e335d079854f1ff1fbb8b

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 544240 3b0947f07c5fc24b33ed7af591021e1f

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 525616 a3a6a0285fb698d2032a36ab87fd6a1f

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 648708 2959fba6dccaa512dc831f2b150fe293

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 570940 9e003ccf3112edd2c349086ac9e7b05a

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 515596 b618564e2e94ca304372084dc58753cc

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 581384 af7e8c6e422f5ff0701baefe2e567891

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 581420 a711924b81bf95dd7d8c1577bfe90589

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 549898 36dd4c082f90af46f2252b32cf0cd733

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 531922 936b063457eca68d5a54a638d32a0134

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/acm/acm_5.0-3.woody.1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 547274 adaaee0cdbfd7eaf552dec2de2f16f9b


-- Debian GNU/Linux unstable alias sid --

Fixed in version 5.0-10.

Original Advisory:
http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-333


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