<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="200501-01"> <title>LinPopUp: Buffer overflow in message reply</title> <synopsis> LinPopUp contains a buffer overflow potentially allowing execution of arbitrary code. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">Linpopup</product> <announced>2005-01-04</announced> <revised count="01">2005-01-04</revised> <bug>74705</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-im/linpopup" auto="yes" arch="*"> <unaffected range="ge">2.0.4-r1</unaffected> <vulnerable range="lt">2.0.4-r1</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p> LinPopUp is a graphical application that acts as a frontend to Samba client messaging functions, allowing a Linux desktop to communicate with a Microsoft Windows computer that runs Winpopup. </p> </background> <description> <p> Stephen Dranger discovered that LinPopUp contains a buffer overflow in string.c, triggered when replying to a remote user message. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p> A remote attacker could craft a malicious message that, when replied using LinPopUp, would exploit the buffer overflow. This would result in the execution of arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running LinPopUp. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p> There is no known workaround at this time. </p> </workaround> <resolution> <p> All LinPopUp users should upgrade to the latest version: </p> <code> # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/linpopup-2.0.4-r1"</code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-1282">CAN-2004-1282</uri> <uri link="http://tigger.uic.edu/~jlongs2/holes/linpopup.txt">Stephen Dranger Advisory</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-12-31T10:20:27Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2005-01-01T22:08:20Z"> koon </metadata> <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2005-01-01T22:15:30Z"> koon </metadata> </glsa>