<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd"> <glsa id="201507-12"> <title>libCapsiNetwork: Denial of service</title> <synopsis>A buffer overflow in libcapsinetwork might allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. </synopsis> <product type="ebuild">libcapsinetwork</product> <announced>2015-07-10</announced> <revised count="2">2015-07-11</revised> <bug>544324</bug> <access>remote</access> <affected> <package name="net-libs/libcapsinetwork" auto="yes" arch="*"> <vulnerable range="le">0.3.0-r2</vulnerable> </package> </affected> <background> <p>libCapsiNetwork is a C++ network library to allow fast development of server daemon processes. </p> </background> <description> <p>An off-by-one buffer overflow in libcapsinetwork network handling code is discovered. </p> </description> <impact type="normal"> <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to application, that is linked with libcapsinetwork, possibly resulting in a Denial of Service condition. </p> </impact> <workaround> <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p> </workaround> <resolution> <p>Gentoo discontinued support for libCapsiNetwork. We recommend that users unmerge it: </p> <code> # emerge --unmerge "net-libs/libcapsinetwork" </code> </resolution> <references> <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0841">CVE-2015-0841</uri> </references> <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-05-29T09:38:01Z"> pinkbyte </metadata> <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-07-11T09:32:23Z"> pinkbyte </metadata> </glsa>