GLSA 200406-19: giFT-FastTrack: remote denial of service attack

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Severity:	low
Title:	giFT-FastTrack: remote denial of service attack
Date:	06/24/2004
Bugs:	#54452
ID:	200406-19

Synopsis

There is a vulnerability where a carefully crafted signal sent to the giFT-FastTrack plugin will cause the giFT daemon to crash.

Background

giFT-FastTrack is a plugin for the giFT file-sharing application. It allows giFT users to connect to the fasttrack network to share files.

Affected packages

Package	Vulnerable	Unaffected	Architecture(s)
net-p2p/gift-fasttrack	<= 0.8.6	>= 0.8.7	All supported architectures

Description

Alan Fitton found a vulnerability in the giFT-FastTrack plugin in version 0.8.6 and earlier. It can be used to remotely crash the giFT daemon.

Impact

Attackers may use this vulnerability to perform a Denial of Service attack against the giFT daemon. There is no risk of code execution.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time. All users are encouraged to upgrade to the latest available version.

Resolution

All users should upgrade to the latest available version of gift-fasttrack:

    # emerge sync
    
    # emerge -pv ">=net-p2p/gift-fasttrack-0.8.7"
    # emerge ">=net-p2p/gift-fasttrack-0.8.7"

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200406-19.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.