DSA-677-1 sympa -- buffer overflow

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

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.