SECURITY: vulnerabilities update

Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) yselkowitz@users.sourceforge.net
Tue Sep 9 03:02:00 GMT 2008


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Package maintainers,

Thank you to those who have updated your packages for the last batch of
security vulnerabilities.  There are two newly announced
vulnerabilities, including one orphaned package which needs some help:

By maintainer
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ORPAHNED: apache2
Lapo Luchini: lighttpd
Charles Wilson: tiff, unzip

By package
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apache2  *** ORPHANED ***
problem: multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-6420, CVE-2008-1672/2364,
CVE-2008-2939)
solution: bump to 2.2.9 AND add this patch:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=682870
info: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-06.xml
(Those wishing to take this over may find this helpful:
http://cygwin-ports.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cygwin-ports/ports/trunk/www/apache2/
BUT the recent patch is not included in SVN yet.)

lighttpd
problem: multiple vulnerabilities (CVE-2008-1270/1531)
solution: bump to 1.4.19 AND apply these patches:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/www-servers/lighttpd/files/1.4.19-r2/
info: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-08.xml

tiff
problem: multiple buffer underflows (CVE-2008-2327)
solution: apply this patch
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/media-libs/tiff/files/tiff-3.8.2-CVE-2008-2327.patch
info: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200809-07.xml

unzip
problem: execution of arbitrary code (CVE-2008-0888)
solution: apply this patch
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/app-arch/unzip/files/unzip-5.52-CVE-2008-0888.patch
info: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200804-06.xml


Yaakov
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