DSA-687-1 bidwatcher -- format string

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-687-1 bidwatcher -- format string

Date Reported:

18 Feb 2005

Affected Packages:

bidwatcher

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0158.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in bidwatcher, a tool for watching and bidding on eBay auctions. This problem can be triggered remotely by a web server of eBay, or someone pretending to be eBay, sending certain data back. As of version 1.3.17 the program uses cURL and is not vulnerable anymore.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.3-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your bidwatcher package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.