DSA-527-1 pavuk -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-527-1 pavuk -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

03 Jul 2004

Affected Packages:

pavuk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10633.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0456.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a vulnerability in pavuk, a file retrieval program, whereby an oversized HTTP 305 response sent by a malicious server could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the pavuk process.

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9pl28-1woody1.

pavuk is no longer included in the unstable distribution of Debian.

We recommend that you update your pavuk package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_sparc.deb

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