[SECURITY] [DSA 677-1] New sympa packages fix potential arbitrary code execution
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 12:38:39 +0100 (CET)
From: [email protected] (Martin Schulze)
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 677-1] New sympa packages fix potential arbitrary code execution
Priority: urgent
Resent-Message-ID: <FY7eyC.A.5BG.StJDCB@murphy.>
Reply-To: [email protected]
Mail-Followup-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Resent-Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 05:47:30 -0600 (CST)
Resent-From: [email protected] (SmartList)
X-Virus-Scanned: antivirus-gw at tyumen.ru
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Debian Security Advisory DSA 677-1 [email protected]
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 SjЖlund 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:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 601 757b8a0b0b6dde6e1b4626768e98aaaf
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 44518 1bcea87b271163637a68aae20e1e14f9
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1457710 59776560bfb6c124c5a25129127383be
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/wwsympa_3.3.3-3woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 349648 0933a74b3e7b529bc3ccfff1e44fd310
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 636122 bcf354d30dd2bda45baeebb512ac84f2
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 634994 3936100bb555bc3f0c67cc4476138d46
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 634982 bb63c09723a848b727d95994d9804ee9
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 637714 2f88784e6c5a9cffdb5a75c56e08ec6d
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 635516 9808c2d9c7e812141c6bb21c63694903
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 635186 0fa581c1fc424991e18079e09dec910d
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 634980 b7cba06ff5e119967c0568392797d78c
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 635016 fbf75e6f39246a03007e0627b35ea8b0
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 634678 061911261f49ddd13918c1af45d2738b
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 635834 f127573347d01e3cd5daedb6235462b5
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_sparc.deb
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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: [email protected]
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<;pkg>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux)
iD8DBQFCDJk+W5ql+IAeqTIRAusBAJ4ytbFrxdBwF96rC9H5JSNb1LhGnwCeKDvI
d1bQzvCR65Am/U+0fhCONfw=
=kemC
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
