Bug 396105 – <app-crypt/heimdal-1.5.1-r1 : telnetd Buffer Overflow Vulnerability (CVE-2011-4862)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Agostino Sarubbo 2011-12-26 17:36:30 UTC]

From secunia security advisory at $URL:

Description:
The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error within the "encrypt_keyid()" function (appl/telnet/libtelnet/encrypt.c) of telnetd, which can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow by sending specially crafted commands to the server.

This is related to:
SA47397 ( https://secunia.com/advisories/47397/ )

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.5.1. Other versions may also be affected.


Solution:
unpatched

[Comment 1 Eray Aslan 2011-12-27 21:16:02 UTC]

+*heimdal-1.5.1-r1 (27 Dec 2011)
+
+  27 Dec 2011; Eray Aslan <[e-mail]> +heimdal-1.5.1-r1.ebuild,
+  +files/CVE-2011-4862.patch, +files/heimdal_missing-include.patch:
+  security bump - bug #396105
+

@security: Please stabilize =app-crypt/heimdal-1.5.1-r1.  Thank you.

[Comment 2 Agostino Sarubbo 2011-12-27 23:17:46 UTC]

Thanks


Arches, please test and mark stable:
=app-crypt/heimdal-1.5.1-r1
Target keywords : "alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 m68k ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"

[Comment 3 Agostino Sarubbo 2011-12-28 00:21:27 UTC]

@Eras:

/etc/init.d/heimdal-kpasswdd returns crashed status after start, I guess is not expected, 

Please tell me if you prefer take a look if it works on a way different to other bug( e.g. irc )

[Comment 4 Agostino Sarubbo 2011-12-28 00:23:39 UTC]

Missing anyway the following rdep:

sys-libs/ncurses-5.9                                                                                                                                                                
sys-libs/readline-6.2_p1                                                                                                                                                            
x11-libs/libX11-1.4.4                                                                                                                                                               
x11-libs/libXau-1.0.6                                                                                                                                                               
x11-libs/libXt-1.1.1

[Comment 5 Agostino Sarubbo 2011-12-28 08:18:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> /etc/init.d/heimdal-kpasswdd returns crashed status after start, I guess is not
> expected, 

Eras said on irc that is expected if kerberos is not configured properly

amd64 stable

[Comment 6 Eray Aslan 2011-12-28 09:04:50 UTC]

rdeps added.  Thanks.

For the record, kpasswdd will crash if kerberos is not configured.  Known problem/bug.

[Comment 7 Mark Loeser (RETIRED) 2011-12-29 20:20:50 UTC]

ppc/ppc64 done

[Comment 8 Paweł Hajdan, Jr. (RETIRED) 2012-01-04 18:16:16 UTC]

x86 stable

[Comment 9 Raúl Porcel (RETIRED) 2012-01-08 15:55:28 UTC]

alpha/arm/ia64/m68k/s390/sh/sparc stable

[Comment 10 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2012-01-17 17:23:37 UTC]

Stable for HPPA (bug #396105 will be solved later, and can be worked around with USE=-X, which should not be a huge problem since most HPPA users won't be using X much anyway).

[Comment 11 Agostino Sarubbo 2012-01-17 19:56:14 UTC]

New glsa draft filed. Thanks everyone.

[Comment 12 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot 2012-02-22 20:50:01 UTC]

This issue was resolved and addressed in
 GLSA 201202-05 at http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201202-05.xml
by GLSA coordinator Sean Amoss (ackle).