DSA-271-1 ecartis -- unauthorized password change

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-271-1 ecartis -- unauthorized password change

Date Reported:

27 Mar 2003

Affected Packages:

ecartis, listar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 6971.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0162.

More information:

A problem has been discovered in ecartis, a mailing list manager, formerly known as listar. This vulnerability enables an attacker to reset the password of any user defined on the list server, including the list admins.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1 of ecartis.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 0.129a-2.potato3 of listar.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.0+cvs.20030321-1 of ecartis.

We recommend that you upgrade your ecartis and listar packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato3_i386.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato3_m68k.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato3_powerpc.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar_0.129a-2.potato3_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/listar/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato3_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_m68k.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ecartis/ecartis-cgi_0.129a+1.0.0-snap20020514-1.1_sparc.deb

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