DSA-726-1 oops -- format string vulnerability

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-726-1 oops -- format string vulnerability

Date Reported:

20 May 2005

Affected Packages:

oops

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 307360.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1121.

More information:

A format string vulnerability has been discovered in the MySQL/PgSQL authentication module of Oops, a caching HTTP proxy server written for performance.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1

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

We recommend that you upgrade your oops package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/o/oops/oops_1.5.19.cvs.20010818-0.1woody1_sparc.deb

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