From: Conectiva Updates (secureconectiva.com.br)
Date: Tue May 25 2004 - 14:35:07 CDT

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CONECTIVA LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT
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PACKAGE : libneon
SUMMARY : Fix for a buffer overflow vulnerability
DATE : 2004-05-25 16:34:00
ID : CLA-2004:841
RELEVANT
RELEASES : 9

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DESCRIPTION
 "libneon"[1] is a library used by some WebDAV clients.
 
 Stefan Esser from e-matters security published[2] an advisory about a
 vulnerability[3] in the libneon library which could be abused by
 remote WebDAV servers to execute arbitrary code on the client
 accessing these servers.

SOLUTION
 It is recommended that all libneon users upgrade their packages.
 
 
 REFERENCES
 1. http://www.webdav.org/neon/
 2. http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/062004.html
 3. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CAN-2004-0398

UPDATED PACKAGES
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/SRPMS/libneon-0.23.5-21884U90_2cl.src.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/RPMS/libneon-devel-0.23.5-21884U90_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/RPMS/libneon-devel-static-0.23.5-21884U90_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/RPMS/libneon-doc-0.23.5-21884U90_2cl.i386.rpm
ftp://atualizacoes.conectiva.com.br/9/RPMS/libneon23-0.23.5-21884U90_2cl.i386.rpm

ADDITIONAL INSTRUCTIONS
 The apt tool can be used to perform RPM packages upgrades:

 - run: apt-get update
 - after that, execute: apt-get upgrade

 Detailed instructions regarding the use of apt and upgrade examples
 can be found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/#apt?idioma=en

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All packages are signed with Conectiva's GPG key. The key and instructions
on how to import it can be found at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/chave/?idioma=en
Instructions on how to check the signatures of the RPM packages can be
found at http://distro.conectiva.com.br/seguranca/politica/?idioma=en

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All our advisories and generic update instructions can be viewed at
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?idioma=en

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