[SECURITY] [DSA 290-1] New sendmail-wide packages fix DoS and arbitrary code execution
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 290-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 17th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : sendmail-wide
Vulnerability : char-to-int conversion
Problem-Type : local, maybe remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0161
CERT advisories: VU#897604 CA-2003-12
Michal Zalewski discovered a buffer overflow, triggered by a char to
int conversion, in the address parsing code in sendmail, a widely used
powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This problem
is potentially remotely exploitable.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been
fixed in version 8.9.3+3.2W-25
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 8.12.9+3.5Wbeta-1
We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail-wide packages.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 541 17dd53835e894bc4213d2555384aff75
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1273704 63cd21c58e45810b21601025c164a85e
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 302722 8b36867359dd0267d8664b290899ec6b
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 217690 f98998b9467ce368b11a862dbe5d4e82
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 202538 e56cc6579ae7da5693047a7e9ceec33e
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 242694 33217654adca1e26bf9e27b4fb96050e
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 236530 32fabe460c63c6fd343d4741104a73f3
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 738 26af096d7a10d63aec72a0b38982973d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 326292 b98e1e9bb74233e1842a0562912b748d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1870451 4c7036e8042bae10a90da4a84a717963
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 440622 d2800104eff39be1a94b94d049e77fc1
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 369412 d63f3107518282fc892835c5251afdcd
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 328794 139dcce3e908b45be6ecd74531279184
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 574908 7ebf517265802b0abaf41d3eeca27b6d
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 413604 9f353dbc5f1c3eca9e34da0e34f227c5
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 300726 6b9f6f9c143f2ae0d5e3b95c9e74d90e
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 378324 22c8467712e9da461043110a86c23dcc
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 380264 ae297336eb7a608f4cdacb3b5cdbf4aa
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 362854 522d8c46a0e8e6b6c143e6e7eac502e6
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 354776 62f538f78d8d17519c74064473cad1c2
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 355964 01de0e06a7bc0fde26b08b7d84e53246
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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