Technical Description

Gentoo has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in NBD Tools. This flaw is due to a buffer overflow error in the nbd-server that fails to properly handle specially crafted requests, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the NBD server.

Affected Products

sys-block/nbd versions prior to 2.8.2-r1

Solution

Upgrade the affected package :
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose " >=sys-block/nbd-2.8.2-r1"

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/3082
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200512-14.xml

ChangeLog

2005-12-24 : Initial release

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