Debian Security Advisory
DSA-677-1 sympa -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 11 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- sympa
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0073.
- More information:
-
Erik Sjölund discovered that a support script of sympa, a mailing list manager, is running setuid sympa and vulnerable to a buffer overflow. This could potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code under the sympa user id.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.3.3-3woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your sympa package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/wwsympa_3.3.3-3woody2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_3.3.3-3woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.