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TITLE:
NetBSD SHA2 Implementation Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA36044

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/36044/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in NetBSD, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the SHA2
implementation and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow with 4
or 8 constant bytes.

NOTE: This results in a heap-based buffer overflow in the libssh
library and in a stack-based buffer overflow in pkg_install.

SOLUTION:
Fixed in the CVS repository. See vendor advisory for details.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Joerg Sonnenberger.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2009-012.txt.asc

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