Bug 197576 - net-firewall/nufw < 2.2.7 samp_send Buffer overflow (DoS) (CVE-2007-5723)
Bug#: 197576 (CVE-2007-5723) Product:  Gentoo Security Version: unspecified Platform: All
OS/Version: Linux Status: RESOLVED Severity: trivial Priority: P2
Resolution: FIXED Assigned To: security@gentoo.org Reported By: rbu@gentoo.org
Component: Vulnerabilities
URL:  http://secunia.com/advisories/27442
Summary: net-firewall/nufw < 2.2.7 samp_send Buffer overflow (DoS) (CVE-2007-5723)
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Status Whiteboard: ~3 [noglsa]
Opened: 2007-10-31 00:49 0000
Description:   Opened: 2007-10-31 00:49 0000 
CVE-2007-5723 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-5723):
  Heap-based buffer overflow in the samp_send function in nuauth/sasl.c in NuFW
  before 2.2.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via
  unspecified input on which base64 encoding is performed. NOTE: some of these
  details are obtained from third party information.

------- Comment #1 From Robert Buchholz 2007-10-31 00:53:17 0000 ------- 
Netmon, Cédric, please advise.

------- Comment #2 From Robert Buchholz 2007-11-12 02:39:32 0000 ------- 
Netmon, cedk is marked away. Are you touching this package?

------- Comment #3 From Peter Volkov 2007-11-12 13:06:14 0000 ------- 
Thank you Rober for report. nufw-2.2.7 is in portage. Old vulnerable versions
are cleaned. No versions were stable. Bug is FIXED. Leaving for security to
update whiteboard and resolve bug.

------- Comment #4 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-11-12 13:13:02 0000 ------- 
thanks Peter.