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Bug 466902 (CVE-2013-1950) - <net-libs/libtirpc-0.2.4-r1: "svc_dg_getargs()" Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2013-1950)
Summary: <net-libs/libtirpc-0.2.4-r1: "svc_dg_getargs()" Denial of Service Vulnerabili...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-1950
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal minor
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://secunia.com/advisories/53026/
Whiteboard: B3 [noglsa cve]
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Reported: 2013-04-23 13:49 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2016-06-21 05:59 UTC (History)
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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-04-23 13:49:51 UTC 
From ${URL} :

Description
A vulnerability has been reported in libtirpc, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause 
a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "svc_dg_getargs()" function (src/svc_dg.c) 
and can be exploited to crash an application using the library via a specially crafted RPC request.

This is related to:
SA8347

The vulnerability is reported in version 0.2.3.


Solution
Fixed in the GIT repository.
Further details available to Secunia VIM customers

Original Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=948378
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/150


@maintainer(s): after the bump, please say explicitly if the package is ready for the stabilization or not
Comment 2 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2013-08-31 18:50:46 UTC 
CVE-2013-1950 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-1950):
  The svc_dg_getargs function in libtirpc 0.2.3 and earlier allows remote
  attackers to cause a denial of service (rpcbind crash) via a Sun RPC request
  with crafted arguments that trigger a free of an invalid pointer.
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-02-02 08:03:39 UTC 
0.2.4-r1 is in the tree
Comment 4 Sergey Popov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2014-02-28 11:35:15 UTC 
(In reply to SpanKY from comment #3)
> 0.2.4-r1 is in the tree

Good. Can we stable it?
Comment 5 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2014-03-22 23:32:00 UTC 
(In reply to Sergey Popov from comment #4)

should be fine
Comment 6 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2015-11-02 19:36:41 UTC 
0.2.5 is stable now for everyone
Comment 7 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-03-01 09:14:38 UTC 
Per previous comment 0.2.5 is stable.  Please remove vulnerable 0.1.10 ebuild.
Comment 8 Aaron Bauman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2016-06-21 05:59:55 UTC 
GLSA Vote: No

Cleaned up:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=0d635f65afc6c69f0a8ebacfc3caf873f4bb28c8