DSA-670-1 emacs20 -- format string

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-670-1 emacs20 -- format string

Date Reported:

08 Feb 2005

Affected Packages:

emacs20

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0100.

More information:

Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs, the well-known editor. Via connecting to a malicious POP server an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of group mail.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 20.7-13.3.

The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain an Emacs20 package anymore.

We recommend that you upgrade your emacs packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7.orig.tar.gz

Architecture-independent component:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20-el_20.7-13.3_all.deb

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_sparc.deb

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