Package name libneon
Date April 19th, 2004
Advisory ID MDKSA-2004:032
Affected versions 9.2, 10.0

Problem Description

A number of various format string vulnerabilities were discovered in
the error output handling of Neon, the HTTP and WebDAV client library,
by Thomas Wana. These problems affect all versions of Neon from 0.19.0
up to and including 0.24.4.

All users are encouraged to upgrade. All client software using this
library is affected.

Updated Packages

Mandrakelinux 9.2

 27cfdb8b6d01ff35b66e0fc2869c3684  9.2/RPMS/libneon0.24-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm
4966905b742a48ca8217eeaaff61351f  9.2/RPMS/libneon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm
f262d63f9a86605c63fa8aadfe486631  9.2/RPMS/libneon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.i586.rpm
d4ea9089a6fe7b09f6effe42027135e9  9.2/SRPMS/libneon-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 9.2/AMD64

 6ce668f23e819a8b4fc646f0f2e5357d  amd64/9.2/RPMS/lib64neon0.24-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.amd64.rpm
97185368e90d2faff99c1e5655535a42  amd64/9.2/RPMS/lib64neon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.amd64.rpm
20dec52552e5d6f903b374dd4b87d939  amd64/9.2/RPMS/lib64neon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.amd64.rpm
d4ea9089a6fe7b09f6effe42027135e9  amd64/9.2/SRPMS/libneon-0.24.5-0.1.92mdk.src.rpm

Mandrakelinux 10.0

 5016f52573f0dbac1ac0b6ddf0ba4808  10.0/RPMS/libneon0.24-0.24.5-0.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
6b60b330eedc14d35b908575ce41bd66  10.0/RPMS/libneon0.24-devel-0.24.5-0.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
55323bb21b265acd84e305f1d965eecc  10.0/RPMS/libneon0.24-static-devel-0.24.5-0.1.100mdk.i586.rpm
a2f6b036d1324c66a8c4f4cf7ea63c60  10.0/SRPMS/libneon-0.24.5-0.1.100mdk.src.rpm

References

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0179

Upgrade

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Verification

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		rpm --checksig package.rpm
		

You can get the GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team to verify the GPG signature of each RPM.

If you use MandrivaUpdate, the verification of md5 checksum and GPG signature is performed automatically for you.