Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2001 01:53:20 +0100
From: Wichert Akkerman [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA-040-1] slrn buffer overflow
Debian Security Advisory DSA-040-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman March 9, 2001
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
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/
.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>’ and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>