USN-955-1: OPIE vulnerability

Releases

• Ubuntu 10.04
• Ubuntu 9.10
• Ubuntu 9.04

Packages

• opie -

Details

Maksymilian Arciemowicz and Adam Zabrocki discovered that OPIE incorrectly
handled long usernames. A remote attacker could exploit this with a crafted
username and make applications linked against libopie crash, leading to a
denial of service.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 9.10

• libopie-dev - 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1.9.10.1

Ubuntu 9.04

• libopie-dev - 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1.9.04.1

Ubuntu 10.04

• libopie-dev - 2.40~dfsg-0ubuntu1.10.04.1

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2010-1938

Related notices

• USN-955-2: libpam-opie