From joey@infodrom.org Tue Feb 8 21:38:19 2005 From: Martin Schulze Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:10:48 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: listadmin@securityfocus.com Subject: [SECURITY] [DSA 670-1] New emacs20 packages fix arbitrary code execution -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 670-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 8th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : emacs20 Vulnerability : format string Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0100 Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs, the well-known editor. Via connecting to a malicious POP server an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of group mail. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 20.7-13.3. The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain an Emacs20 package anymore. We recommend that you upgrade your emacs 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/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 623 a1747d7a2adc0269123d7b9430782f81 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 63385 e3762c400bee11fbfdb7aaf520854fa6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 18451553 879d5eaf52f0063a2948a0e1cfc3e886 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20-el_20.7-13.3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 5733996 bde64de09a9b2485b81aaaecd9318d97 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9299902 3fd599dcf23a59d69aeb30cdfeb0bc1a ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9053904 225b349728df97f1908966e663c2ce1c Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8983948 5da8b74b0bbffd9d7ae04e9d3d7ad44b Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9563936 58ff45962cf2e7f5304b9f10e792c685 HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9226312 94f642cf49a685de3f3ec7b6da9f6121 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 8977188 b6248cb5843a342bd3a6bb0cd60f34dd Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9218238 44ecc07fa53fabf4b1398e817722573d Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9178056 68daa071410f9c64294878e04c48383d PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9095196 e9c2599335c5b96bfd5d831925568d8d IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9094704 25be346bd91d34abcfe7724e3602c45c Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9085792 1abfcd061af7cdb4e3cf8cd28b771865 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCCIIYW5ql+IAeqTIRArswAKCXavrrUFGGLoiQcdoRjg3BrS0FBwCdEjOS Z3wm6W7t4w7Ffqawk/gC784= =F/8T -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----