Debian: New emacs21 packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 685-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze February 17th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : emacs21 Vulnerability : format string Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-0100 Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs, the well-known editor. Via connecting to a malicious POP server an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of group mail. For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 21.2-1woody3. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 21.3+1-9. We recommend that you upgrade your emacs packages. Upgrade Instructions - --------------------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 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 685 7b2d6f448bda83cde50bfbdac6af3c37 Size/MD5 checksum: 60779 26c73195d7bc0ec32cb49d1a39c27cd9 Size/MD5 checksum: 24072376 3ac8d47ce8a61f2e585e6359efc53f07 Architecture independent components: Size/MD5 checksum: 7123990 91e9e9e5d2a36e5e69854c5207f9e03c Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13255430 dcbdbbdc5c2a226034477195f2c91ebf ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12886726 7498feec697be0a9a3dffd0cbec52429 Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12847064 98374f09bde9ed2c757d778f30cdee25 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13583480 aae0aa9e6e47818e99a21a11b79bfa5a HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13095946 987acfbbf7cdd80b43c3d73ae9b448b1 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12777404 7d28afe74b5b742647053e5a7078307c Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13076678 0dd0166bf19e0834a25e0da02cac7699 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 13032364 1518ecdaa0044ab33719c5cfb732f864 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12929482 b00ec48f6b94043e23ae527316edbb02 IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12916492 1275283ccce7678b26914396baa466c1 Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 12962686 35e755cc4e619b8c200b9d14cffcf300 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org