DSA-1186-1 cscope -- buffer overflows

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1186-1 cscope -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:

30 Sep 2006

Affected Packages:

cscope

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 385893.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-4262.

More information:

Will Drewry of the Google Security Team discovered several buffer overflows in cscope, a source browsing tool, which might lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5-1.1sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5+cvs20060902-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_arm.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_ia64.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge2_sparc.deb

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