DSA-513-1 log2mail -- format string

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-513-1 log2mail -- format string

Date Reported:

03 Jun 2004

Affected Packages:

log2mail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10460.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0450.

More information:

jaguar@felinemenace.org discovered a format string vulnerability in log2mail, whereby a user able to log a specially crafted message to a logfile monitored by log2mail (for example, via syslog) could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the log2mail process. By default, this process runs as user 'log2mail', which is a member of group 'adm' (which has access to read system logfiles).

CAN-2004-0450: log2mail format string vulnerability via syslog(3) in printlog()

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5.2.

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

We recommend that you update your log2mail package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.2_sparc.deb

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