Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 23:10:51 -0700
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@cistron.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of mailx released
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Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman
August 8, 2000
Package : mailx
Problem type : local exploit
Debian-specific: no
mailx is a often used by other programs to send email.
Unfortunately mailx as distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 has some
features that made it possible to execute system commands if a user
can trick a privileged program to send email using /usr/bin/mail.
This has been fixed in version 8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2 by no longer
allowing all configuration options to be set using the
environment.
We recommend you upgrade your mailx package immediately.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 alias slink
This version of Debian was released only for Intel, the Motorola
680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: edcd9210ef001cfde91252abd3547ab1
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2.dsc
MD5 checksum: 508850b252b8f4797cfc38ce3e63ac57
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/mailx_8.1.1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: c779002cb043b57fd5198ec2032cacb0
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 8a218e08fd337c260504ffce82954426
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 1eb602833806b8a7a3d30a2515eadf72
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-m68k/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: b31f0ec28bd6a42108f1bb51e6795fed
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-sparc/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.1slink.2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: e6f6f193c85b45f9220fa9819326d6ac
These files will be moved into
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Please note that woody has not been released yet. However since
potato is very close to being release security updates are already
being made available on security.debian.org.
Potato will be release for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc. However at this moment fixes are not available for all
architectures. Packages for architectures not mentioned here will
be available shortly on security.debian.org .
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 95f3a7a1305c6c276471d02f33d0c837
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3.dsc
MD5 checksum: fea46d4eb874052ff4b440fac3c0c976
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/source/mailx_8.1.1.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: c779002cb043b57fd5198ec2032cacb0
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-alpha/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: d85e6f8ca7822c36d2947cc5f07c9d59
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-arm/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 37bd5565a76a96391ca6cf3c2116d74b
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-i386/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: fefd4a769160b8a1ed25df4d62dc4a2b
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-powerpc/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 990e9168c99dc1661011577c203a8d53
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/potato/updates/main/binary-sparc/mailx_8.1.1-10.1.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 9ccb4cc89c5d9ec6e912034ff1584b90
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable updates
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates Mailing list:
debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
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