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<glsa id="200608-18">
  <title>Net::Server: Format string vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    A format string vulnerability has been reported in Net::Server which can be
    exploited to cause a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">net-server</product>
  <announced>2006-08-10</announced>
  <revised count="01">2006-08-10</revised>
  <bug>142386</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="dev-perl/net-server" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.88</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.88</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Net::Server is an extensible, generic Perl server engine. It is used by
    several Perl applications like Postgrey.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The log function of Net::Server does not handle format string
    specifiers properly before they are sent to syslog.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By sending a specially crafted datastream to an application using
    Net::Server, an attacker could cause a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Net::Server should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=dev-perl/net-server-0.88"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-1127">CVE-2005-1127</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-08-07T08:06:01Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-08-07T12:30:18Z">
    dizzutch
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-08-08T10:05:21Z">
    vorlon078
  </metadata>
</glsa>