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Debian 3.0 DSA 513-1 Critical Log2mail Format String Risk

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Calendar Grey June 8, 2004
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A security issue has been discovered in log2mail, which may allow attackers to exploit a format string vulnerability, potentially executing arbitrary code
Exploit could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the log2mail process.

Summary

jaguar@felinemenace.org discovered a format string vulnerability in
log2mail, whereby a user able to log a specially crafted message to a
logfile monitored by log2mail (for example, via syslog) could cause
arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the log2mail
process. By default, this process runs as user 'log2mail', which is a
member of group 'adm' (which has access to read system logfiles).

CAN-2004-0450: log2mail format string vulnerability via syslog(3) in
printlog()

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been
fixed in version 0.2.5.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you update your log2mail package.

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

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
...

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Package: log2mail

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