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From: NetBSD Security Officer (security-officer_at_netbsd.org)
Date: Tue Oct 08 2002 - 00:29:06 CDT

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                     NetBSD Security Advisory 2002-022
                     =================================

    Topic: buffer overrun in pic(1)

    Version: NetBSD-current: source prior to September 28, 2002
                    NetBSD 1.6: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5.3: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5.2: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5.1: affected
                    NetBSD-1.5: affected

    Severity: possible remote root compromise (depending on your config)

    Fixed: NetBSD-current: September 28, 2002
                    NetBSD-1.6 branch: October 3, 2002
                                            (1.6.1 will include the fix)
                    NetBSD-1.5 branch: September 28, 2002

    Abstract
    ========

    pic(1) had a buffer overrun in argument handling.
    The problem could be remotely exploited depending on lpd(8) setup.

    Technical Details
    =================

    http://online.securityfocus.com/bid/3103

    Solutions and Workarounds
    =========================

    If you enable remote printing via lpd(8), the problem is remotely
    exploitable, and therefore severity is high. Even if you do not
    run remote printing via lpd(8), we encourage you to upgrade pic(1) binary
    to prevent opening up security hole with future reconfiguration.

    The following instructions describe how to upgrade your pic
    binaries by updating your source tree and rebuilding and
    installing a new version of pic.

    * NetBSD-current:

            Systems running NetBSD-current dated from before 2002-09-28
            should be upgraded to NetBSD-current dated 2002-09-28 or later.

            The following directories need to be updated from the
            netbsd-current CVS branch (aka HEAD):
                    gnu/dist/groff/src/preproc/pic

            To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install pic:
                    # cd src
                    # cvs update -d -P gnu/dist/groff/src/preproc/pic

                    # cd gnu/usr.bin/groff/pic
                    # make cleandir dependall
                    # make install

    * NetBSD 1.6:

            Systems running NetBSD 1.6 beta sources dated from before
            2002-10-03 should be upgraded from NetBSD 1.6 sources dated
            2002-10-03 or later.

            The following directories need to be updated from the
            netbsd-1-6 CVS branch:
                    gnu/dist/groff/src/preproc/pic

            To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install pic:

                    # cd src
                    # cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-1-6 gnu/dist/groff/src/preproc/pic

                    # cd gnu/usr.bin/groff/pic
                    # make cleandir dependall
                    # make install

    * NetBSD 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, 1.5.3:

            Systems running NetBSD 1.5, 1.5.1, 1.5.2, or 1.5.3 sources dated
            from before 2002-09-28 should be upgraded from NetBSD 1.5.*
            sources dated 2002-09-28 or later.

            The following directories need to be updated from the
            netbsd-1-5 CVS branch:
                    gnu/usr.bin/groff/pic

            To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install pic:

                    # cd src
                    # cvs update -d -P -r netbsd-1-5 gnu/usr.bin/groff/pic

                    # cd gnu/usr.bin/groff/pic
                    # make cleandir dependall
                    # make install

    Thanks To
    =========

    Thomas Klausner for notifying this issue to NetBSD security officers.

    Revision History
    ================

            2002-10-08 Initial release

    More Information
    ================

    Advisories may be updated as new information comes to hand. The most
    recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at
      ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-022.txt.asc

    Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
    http://www.NetBSD.ORG/ and http://www.NetBSD.ORG/Security/.

    Copyright 2002, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

    $NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2002-022.txt,v 1.4 2002/10/08 03:43:36 itojun Exp $

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