Debian Security Advisory: slrn buffer overflow

Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:53:20 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman wichert@cistron.nl
To: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-040-1] slrn buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-040-1                                      security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                                   Wichert Akkerman 
March  9, 2001

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Package        : slrn
Problem type   : buffer overflow
Debian-specific: no

Bill Nottingham reported a problem in the wrapping/unwrapping
functions of the slrn newsreader. A long header in a message might
overflow a buffer and which could result into executing arbitraty
code encoded in the message.

The default configuration does not have wrapping enable, but it
can easily be enabled either by changing the configuration or
pressing W while viewing a message.

This has been fixed in version 0.9.6.2-9potato1 and we recommand
that you upgrade your slrn package immediately.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato

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Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc.

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1.diff.gz

MD5 checksum: 5dd13f483c2fa61d6fd6370f7813df82

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1.dsc

MD5 checksum: 813ad9482041914b484428281fc28ad8

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2.orig.tar.gz

MD5 checksum: 7ce442af03aeafb88a636183955c270e

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 8329209a6aa996d1ae6d661f56dd3188

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato1_alpha.deb

MD5 checksum: 91cd53de5c2c8cd58fecbec3c703156b

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: 25e04bc0fbf2f7d6f04005c2ecb4831d

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato1_arm.deb

MD5 checksum: eef5b32a35d8193cfbe7988f683f70bf

Intel ia32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: c871721245934e479a70fc712fa24021

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato1_i386.deb

MD5 checksum: 2e8c43ac86e3a28ca5c65f40c47315d8

Motorola 680×0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: a30edb247ac6bed594a848421588e8bb

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato1_m68k.deb

MD5 checksum: 7aeeca1532ef2d384d98990aa51c5bc8

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: f7fdde7f8a5028812fb5d06779c0fb63

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato1_powerpc.deb

MD5 checksum: 74a4648cdcfaf38243f7654a9b496832

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: ac9f606cf5524dd1865e7b85314e7a3a

http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksum: 7b912bd3e7d406be4e041bea90d77439

These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.

For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.

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