Debian: masqmail buffer overflows
Summary
A set of buffer overflows have been discovered in masqmail, a mail
transport agent for hosts without permanent internet connection. In
addition to this privileges were dropped only after reading a user
supplied configuration file. Together this could be exploited to gain
unauthorized root access to the machine on which masqmail is
installed.
These problems have been fixed in version 0.1.16-2.1 for the current
stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.2.15-1 for the unstable
distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not
affected since it doesn't contain a masqmail package.
We recommend that you upgrade your masqmail package immediately.
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
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
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Alpha architecture:
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ARM architecture:
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Intel IA-32 architecture:
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Intel IA-64 architecture:
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HP Precision architecture:
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Motorola 680x0 architecture:
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Big endian MIPS architecture:
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Little endian MIPS architecture:
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PowerPC architecture:
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IBM S/390 architecture:
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Sun Sparc architecture:
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These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.