Debian Security Advisory: New version of nmh released

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:38:04 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@soil.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of nmh released

Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/
Wichert Akkerman
February 28, 2000

Package: nmh
Vulnerability type: remote exploit
Debian-specific: no

The version of nmh that was distributed in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1
(aka slink) did not check incoming mail messages properly. This
could be exploited by using carefully designed MIME headers to
trick mhshow into executing arbitrary shell code.

This has been fixed in version 0.27-0.28-pre8-4. We recommend
you upgrade your nmh 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 ia32, the
Motorola 680×0, the alpha and the Sun sparc architecture.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nmh_0.27-0.28-pre8-4.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: e067ed67134efa5f3e0e2ed8ff70ebb3

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nmh_0.27-0.28-pre8-4.dsc

MD5 checksum: 311c7fa22aa6ff3e0911f363d83f1260

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/source/nmh_0.27-0.28-pre8.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: cb8af772beccf3432184ffe71cd9f39c

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-alpha/nmh_0.27-0.28-pre8-4_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: d3fdfb597a3c6be024481a8d17ae8882

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/binary-i386/nmh_0.27-0.28-pre8-4_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: a5e06258dfdfc38069597047acdc7c5f