Debian: New sympa packages fix potential arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 677-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 11th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : sympa Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0073 Erik Sjölund discovered that a support script of sympa, a mailing list manager, is running setuid sympa and vulnerable to a buffer overflow. This could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code under the sympa user id. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-3woody2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you upgrade your sympa package. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 601 757b8a0b0b6dde6e1b4626768e98aaaf Size/MD5 checksum: 44518 1bcea87b271163637a68aae20e1e14f9 Size/MD5 checksum: 1457710 59776560bfb6c124c5a25129127383be Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 349648 0933a74b3e7b529bc3ccfff1e44fd310 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 636122 bcf354d30dd2bda45baeebb512ac84f2 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 634994 3936100bb555bc3f0c67cc4476138d46 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 634982 bb63c09723a848b727d95994d9804ee9 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 637714 2f88784e6c5a9cffdb5a75c56e08ec6d HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 635516 9808c2d9c7e812141c6bb21c63694903 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 635186 0fa581c1fc424991e18079e09dec910d Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 634980 b7cba06ff5e119967c0568392797d78c Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 635016 fbf75e6f39246a03007e0627b35ea8b0 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 634678 061911261f49ddd13918c1af45d2738b IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 635834 f127573347d01e3cd5daedb6235462b5 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 639518 c86008d13499edddeaf9f5f5daf5a667 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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