DSA-1806-1 cscope -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1806-1 cscope -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

24 May 2009

Affected Packages:

cscope

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 528510.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2009-0148.

More information:

Matt Murphy discovered that cscope, a source code browsing tool, does not verify the length of file names sourced in include statements, which may potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted source code files.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 15.6-6+lenny1.

Due to a technical limitation in the Debian archive management scripts the update for the old stable distribution (etch) cannot be released synchronously. It will be fixed in version 15.6-2+etch4 soon.

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

We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6.orig.tar.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1.diff.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_arm.deb

ARM EABI:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_armel.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.6-6+lenny1_sparc.deb

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