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Date:      Thu, 08 Nov 2001 10:10:15 -0700 (MST)
From:      David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu>
To:        FreeBSD Security List <freebsd-security@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Fw: Buffer overflow in lpd?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.33.0111081008110.26286-100000@moroni.pp.asu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20011108153916.A67725@straylight.oblivion.bg>

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On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Peter Pentchev wrote:

> Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 15:39:16 +0200
> On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 07:29:17AM -0600, Kevin & Anita Kinsey wrote:
> > from http://icat.nist.gov/icat.cfm?cvename=CAN-2001-0670 :
> >
> > "Buffer overflow in BSD line printer daemon (in.lpd or lpd) in various BSD-based operating systems allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an incomplete print job followed by a request to display the printer queue."
> >
> > Was this fixed prior to 4.4-REL?  Date on site is "prior to 10/3/2001."  REL was Sept, correct?
>
> All the information is there at the FreeBSD Project website.
> Go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/, follow the Security link, follow
> the Security Advisories link, there is a list of advisories.
> SA-01:58 is labeled as 'FreeBSD-SA-01:58.lpd', suggesting that
> it has something to do with, well, lpd :)
>
> This advisory lists a correction date of 2001-08-30 (FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE)
> and states that "[the] base system that will ship with FreeBSD 4.4 does
> not contain this problem since it was corrected before the release".
>

As a side note, it is also curious that if 4.4-RELEASE LPRng was NOT
included in the ports directory.  /usr/ports make search key=lprng only
found ifhp -- the lprng filter.  Anyone know why lprng (the supposedly
more secure lpr) was not included in the ports dist?



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