Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1248-1 libsoup -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

12 Jan 2007

Affected Packages:

libsoup

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 405197.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-5876.

More information:

Roland Lezuo and Josselin Mouette discovered that the libsoup HTTP library performs insufficient sanitising when parsing HTTP headers, which might lead to denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.3-2sarge1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.98-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.98-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your libsoup package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup_2.2.3-2sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup_2.2.3-2sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup_2.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-doc_2.2.3-2sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_arm.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-7_2.2.3-2sarge1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libsoup/libsoup2.2-dev_2.2.3-2sarge1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.