[Editor’s Note: A second advisory was released soon after
the first, detailing a problem with the first advisory’s Woody
packages. Both advisories have been included in this post.
-BKP]
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 278-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 4th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : sendmail Vulnerability : char-to-int conversion Problem-Type : local, maybe remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2003-0161 CERT Id : VU#897604 CA-2003-12 Michal Zalewski discovered a buffer overflow, triggered by a char to int conversion, in the address parsing code in sendmail, a widely used powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This problem is potentially remotely exploitable. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.3-6.2. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.9.3-26. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.9-1. We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail packages. 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 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 649 f11b024ef774130f7918b882a7318c78 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 143360 2e9868662e4e28e548ed9f6da2982b41 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1068290 efedacfbce84a71d1cfb0e617b84596e Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 989736 a435c32c79785261bd0e7ec921718915 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 948306 1bdd277a28bd6a6c3c812053d11b1edd Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 931838 36c569e21502a246dbdfba711b54842e Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 917632 8ed928ac433a6be8d3144bb435bf1cfd PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 933820 000557eff8d57fa2e479e8df52348f0b Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 945760 c2e0e3d1edb05a00d3e5b0d8ca1053c8 Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - --------------------------------
Please see the second advisory below for the correct
package’s links. -BKP
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/; - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 278-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze April 4th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : sendmail Vulnerability : char-to-int conversion Problem-Type : local, maybe remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2003-0161 CERT Id : VU#897604 CA-2003-12 This is a major brown paperbag update. The old packages for the stable distribution (woody) did not work as expected and you should only update to the new packages mentioned in this advisory. The packages in the old stable distribution (potato) are working properly. I'm awfully sorry for the inconvenience. At the moment updated packages are only available for alpha, i386 and sparc. The original advisory was: Michal Zalewski discovered a buffer overflow, triggered by a char to int conversion, in the address parsing code in sendmail, a widely used powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This problem is potentially remotely exploitable. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.3-6.3. We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail packages. 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/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 761 105b2619c72e95e90aec1f8dbe69fb6d http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 253206 95f7f532f1f94061803d0b5407c7bd7a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 1840401 b198b346b10b3b5afc8cb4e12c07ff4d Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.12.3-6.3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 747428 b3ade8ee7ac5de3f7e9a66eaf51654c0 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 267498 9616df6f9a46472c1fd6e3d2a418d9f8 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1218434 23579de1583d6fb9976e1b1c2f59fc00 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 236984 2a1bef62b8cbf587529a798b1090429c http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1003430 66deba993c135453e2e554faf4955615 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 244974 0a2bbdfec93148f2fa796874012dfc2a http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 1069450 cbe517ba8fbd191dc5dffe1604da4454 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/;