A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
The following packages are affected:
libslp1 slpd
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 1.0.11-7ubuntu0.1. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
Details follow:
The SuSE Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in the OpenSLP server and client library. By sending specially crafted SLP packets, a remote attacker could exploit this to crash the SLP server or execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the "daemon" user. Likewise, a malicious SLP server could exploit the client library vulnerabilities to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the SLP client application.