[ESA-20030916-023] OpenSSH buffer management error.

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| Guardian Digital Security Advisory September 16, 2003 |
| http://www.guardiandigital.com ESA-20030916-023 |
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| Packages: openssh, openssh-clients, openssh-server |
| Summary: buffer management error. |
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EnGarde Secure Linux is an enterprise class Linux platform engineered
to enable corporations to quickly and cost-effectively build a complete
and secure Internet presence while preventing Internet threats.

OVERVIEW

The OpenSSH daemon shipped with all versions of EnGarde Secure Linux
contains a potentially exploitable buffer management error.

The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project (cve.mitre.org) has
assigned the name CAN-2003-0693 to this issue.

Guardian Digital products affected by this issue include:

EnGarde Secure Community v1.0.1
EnGarde Secure Community 2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.1
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.2
EnGarde Secure Professional v1.5

It is recommended that all users apply this update as soon as possible.

SOLUTION

Guardian Digital Secure Network subscribers may automatically update
affected systems by accessing their account from within the Guardian
Digital WebTool.

To modify your GDSN account and contact preferences, please go to:

https://www.guardiandigital.com/account/

Below are MD5 sums for the updated EnGarde Secure Linux 1.0.1 packages:

SRPMS/openssh-3.4p1-1.0.23.src.rpm
  MD5 Sum: 7afd3066246d6202280d6eb1085fb93f

i386/openssh-3.4p1-1.0.23.i386.rpm
  MD5 Sum: d7b8903355e7ad5d0557a6b238f54538

i386/openssh-clients-3.4p1-1.0.23.i386.rpm
  MD5 Sum: a2c8d84d6f2f0081349edee0313d1ea9

i386/openssh-server-3.4p1-1.0.23.i386.rpm
  MD5 Sum: 6a714c0b602a958a9dfc02ae17cc18b9

i686/openssh-3.4p1-1.0.23.i686.rpm
  MD5 Sum: 0069f3e4350e2db89a435cef6380f389

i686/openssh-clients-3.4p1-1.0.23.i686.rpm
  MD5 Sum: 9988376836aa28ca28e3fd427bda6f91

i686/openssh-server-3.4p1-1.0.23.i686.rpm
  MD5 Sum: 526145487b80cdb41a70971957947d8d

REFERENCES

Guardian Digital's public key:
http://ftp.engardelinux.org/pub/engarde/ENGARDE-GPG-KEY

OpenSSH's Official Web Site:
http://www.openssh.org/

Guardian Digital Advisories:
http://infocenter.guardiandigital.com/advisories/

Security Contact: [email protected]

Author: Ryan W. Maple <[email protected]>
Copyright 2003, Guardian Digital, Inc.

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