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Request ID: [ph.unimelb.edu.au #1019] Request Title: [SECURITY] [DSA 677-1] New sympa packages fix potential arbitrary code execution You will shortly receive another email indicating who will deal with your request. Ideally additional enquiries or information about your request should be sent to us by responding to this email. However, please feel free to phone the person allocated to your request if you wish to discuss your request further. Please also feel free to visit us between 11-1 if you want to talk face to face with us. Thank you, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----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 SjÃlund 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----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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