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Debian 2.2 DSA-123-1 Urgent: Enumerate Network Exploit Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey March 19, 2002
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A critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the listar package could allow attackers to run arbitrary code on your system, prompting an upgrade to listar 2.4.5-1 for security.
Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski reported a buffer overflowin the address_match of listar (a listserv style mailing-list manager).
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Summary

Package : listar
Problem type : remote exploit
Debian-specific: no

Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski reported a buffer overflow
in the address_match of listar (a listserv style mailing-list manager).

This has been fixed in version 0.129a-2.potato1.

wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.


Source archives:

MD5 checksum: a6e40875491815afc37d351b880da632

MD5 checksum: c878e05868e010738c7af76126bf6f57

MD5 checksum: 0302a199d9e5ee180c9e6e55ee7a0780

Alpha architecture:


MD5 checksum: 513df9fe1518dccf2017fe153956ced6


MD5 checksum: fe8c81f9b9cda57b07aa48a6b946cbb5

ARM architecture:


MD5 checksum: 7c24002166961b3e038b48088665841d

MD5 checksum: c6a88928d9ef5ec6297dda0f1db6eaf8

Intel IA-32 architecture:


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security advisory buffer overflow remote exploit Debian critical severity listar mailing list manager

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