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This vulnerability could potentiallybe exploited by a remote attacker to gain the privileges of a user whohas configured qmail to forward messages to autorespond.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 373-1 This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Debian -- Security Information Matt Zimmerman August 16th, 2003 Debian -- Debian security FAQ -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : autorespond Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0654 Christian Jaeger discovered a buffer overflow in autorespond, an email autoresponder used with qmail. This vulnerability could potentially be exploited by a remote attacker to gain the privileges of a user who has configured qmail to forward messages to autorespond. This vulnerability is currently not believed to be exploitable due to incidental limits on the length of the problematic input, but there may be situations in which these limits do not apply. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.2-2woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your autorespond 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: 584 d03eea2873909e5eac15989c2c441680 Size/MD5 checksum: 32470cdaa54cd1dc0431d87cce6df8926a81 Size/MD5 checksum: 7300 aa81f2c02b36ccd3ce58c60f0f89683e Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 10230 5e0e59c69c512391e735e517769b1285 ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 8976 e8a488cf0196a1f21ceb5432852287ab Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9266 d5bbd4d908a48b15257d519810021979 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12186 4063758c3d51b4a3231cb0e315111000 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9724 74cb835115b25c77881cff95e18362e3 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9046 153a7e36e4c7c9aaea59127f0d2f8291 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9332 7f992e0f0b94bdfd63b0ceb3d9376653 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9328 5cf27bfc3b68e06384cc6766657080fc PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9178 624e5a24f536d5e22a7411c84b1ae704 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 9594 514fd6de0dfdfe9aee6b90971c027a37 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 11628 ae43ac7ee5308ee5b491329c81365075 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. . Critical flaw in Debian's auto-reply feature places your machine at risk of external exploitation. Patch now to fortify defenses.. Debian Security Advisory, Autorespond Buffer Overflow, Remote Attack. . Severity: Critical. LinuxSecurity.com Team
Aug 16, 2003
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