DSA-995-1 metamail -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-995-1 metamail -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

13 Mar 2006

Affected Packages:

metamail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 352482.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16611.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0709.

More information:

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in metamail, an implementation of MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions), that could lead to a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code when processing messages.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-45woody.4.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-47sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-51.

We recommend that you upgrade your metamail package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_sparc.deb

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