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Secunia Advisory SA32720

Astaro update for libspf2
Secunia Advisory SA32720
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Release Date 2008-11-14
   
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Criticality level Moderately criticalModerately critical
Impact DoS
System access
Where From remote
Authentication level Available in Customer Area
   
Report reliability Available in Customer Area
Solution Status Vendor Patch
   
Systems affected Available in Customer Area
Approve distribution Available in Customer Area
   
Operating System
Astaro Security Gateway 7.x
Secunia CVSS Score Available in Customer Area
CVE Reference(s) CVE CVSS available in Customer Area
2008-2469 CVSS available in Customer Area
  

Description
Astaro has issued an update for libspf2. This fixes a vulnerability, which can be exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is cause due to a boundary error within the "SPF_dns_resolv_lookup()" function in Spf_dns_resolv.c when processing DNS responses. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted DNS TXT record.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Solution
Apply Up2Date package 7.305
Further details available in Customer Area

Original Advisory
http://up2date.astaro.com/2008/11/up2date_7305_released.html

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Subject: Astaro update for libspf2
 
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