Debian: sendmail remote exploit
Summary
Package : sendmail
Problem type : remote exploit
Debian-specific: no
Mark Dowd of ISS X-Force found a bug in the header parsing routines
of sendmail: it could overflow a buffer overflow when encountering
addresses with very long comments. Since sendmail also parses headers
when forwarding emails this vulnerability can hit mail-servers which do
not deliver the email as well.
This has been fixed in upstream release 8.12.8, version 8.12.3-5 of
the package for Debian GNU/Linux 3.0/woody and version 8.9.3-25 of the
package for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2/potato.
Obtaining updates:
By hand:
wget URL
will fetch the file for you.
dpkg -i FILENAME.deb
will install the fetched file.
With apt:
deb Debian -- Security Information stable/updates main
added to /etc/apt/sources.list will provide security updates
Additional information can be found on the Debian security webpages
at Debian -- Security Information
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc. At
this moment updates for the m68k architecture are not yet available.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 142053 a5172ea9cce863ff7796a0e1573bb361
Size/MD5 checksum: 651 5c9e20403c26133eb3b7cd3fad80a608
Size/MD5 checksum: 1068290 efedacfbce84a71d1cfb0e617b84596e
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 989462 5a76b01999d5691e3dfd841f28e76ab1
arm architecture (ARM)
Size/MD5 checksum: 947790 c0cf8d1e66be69d3525623d126af7c4d
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 931394 b2cd8eb24365b443849ac74bf267a373
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 933404 077353947cd8d31bf9cd7b3fdb037b66
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 945388 2d08ccae7c9afcfa553df345de92f7d2
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
Woody was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel,
powerpc, s390 and sparc. At this moment updates for the m68k architecture
are not yet available.
Source archives:
Size/MD5 checksum: 252348 2176de8c6803953544e45be7cb5b9edf
Size/MD5 checksum: 864 d59c00fa854c4f799a3b80cbc5afb430
Size/MD5 checksum: 1840401 b198b346b10b3b5afc8cb4e12c07ff4d
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 747180 22fd21892f01d09bd0f8dea8b775c9d9
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
Size/MD5 checksum: 1218128 58560487fc226a845fd7296660a61cb5
Size/MD5 checksum: 267188 a76d0c273d9dd6e5e21036687d08a9dc
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 261038 641be1e03d7740867a3411169c679df9
Size/MD5 checksum: 1183136 b28aefc29d9d006d2e41b20cabe3a022
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
Size/MD5 checksum: 1003544 add112cbca33ed2ef08c71f4310c3b99
Size/MD5 checksum: 236700 7fad41d249e34da223ef14a5c8d3d0e5
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
Size/MD5 checksum: 281374 f212558f7949f510015a6fb98c5f9eba
Size/MD5 checksum: 1481876 f74b5c848aeac0e0eb4e37457107172b
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 254526 d13a130869dbcfa4d987b712d4d5a5b5
Size/MD5 checksum: 1125168 d9ce244ca31591c3856585f3a18fba8f
mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian))
Size/MD5 checksum: 254218 8ced0f9f7e5fe6fce92b21d151a74262
Size/MD5 checksum: 1126432 46a7e7aeaf692952d33af1e440f1ca24
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 256638 1979775c88595b879c51c189cb988bbe
Size/MD5 checksum: 1072842 930eacda0842a5352baaa0777a766c8b
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
Size/MD5 checksum: 241982 12308ce83066626a829801eacb84b750
Size/MD5 checksum: 1049162 4d236fb632838c25c889060d513aff38
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
Size/MD5 checksum: 244686 18ab3afa614305c57ee90ca88c653a96
Size/MD5 checksum: 1069094 d0d8b236d637c04490fc5355b1a41701
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