Bug#352482: [Debian-audit] Re: Bug#352482: metamail: crashes with very long boundaries in messages

2006-02-13 Thread Max Vozeler
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 12:45:46PM +0100, Ulf Harnhammar wrote: > > How is this not [potentially] exploitable? > > Well, because of the error message that it prints, and because of > the way things look in gdb (if I remember correctly, it crashes in > strtok() or some similar function). I've bee

Bug#352482: metamail: crashes with very long boundaries in messages

2006-02-13 Thread Ulf Harnhammar
> BTW, what is in ./metamail, rather than ./src/metamail/?? I don't know. I noticed that the source is included twice, but I haven't looked into why that is the case. FWIW, if you just patch the source in src and not in ., the resulting binaries seem to be fixed. > > I have found that metamail

Bug#352482: metamail: crashes with very long boundaries in messages

2006-02-12 Thread Justin Pryzby
tag 352482 security thanks On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 10:34:54AM +0100, Ulf Harnhammar wrote: > Subject: metamail: crashes with very long boundaries in messages > Package: metamail > Version: 2.7-50 BTW, what is in ./metamail, rather than ./src/metamail/?? Is it a different source version?? It has,

Bug#352482: metamail: crashes with very long boundaries in messages

2006-02-12 Thread Ulf Harnhammar
Subject: metamail: crashes with very long boundaries in messages Package: metamail Version: 2.7-50 Severity: important Tags: patch Hello, I have found that metamail crashes when processing messages with very long boundaries. They cause a buffer overflow, which doesn't seem to be exploitable: [E