Package: smstools
Version: 1.16-1+b1
Severity: grave
Justification: user security hole
Tags: security

*** Please type your report below this line ***

  A DSA has just been released for smstools due to an insecure
 usage of syslog in the logging code.

  The following patch will correct the issue:

--- smstools-1.14.8.orig/src/logging.c
+++ smstools-1.14.8/src/logging.c
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
   va_end(argp);
   if (Filehandle<0)
   {
-    syslog(severity,text);
+    syslog(severity,"%s",text);
   }
   else
   {


Steve
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12.6-xen
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages smstools depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libmm14                       1.4.0-1    Shared memory library - runtime

smstools recommends no packages.

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