Debian: New libconvert-uulib-perl packages fix arbitrary code execution
Summary
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 727-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze May 20th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - --------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : libconvert-uulib-perl Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : local (remote) Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2005-1349 Mark Martinec and Robert Lewis discovered a buffer overflow in Convert::UUlib, a Perl interface to the uulib library, which may result in the execution of arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 0.201-2woody1. For the testing (sarge) and unstable (sid) distributions this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.5.1-1. We recommend that you upgrade your libconvert-uulib-perl package. 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: 657 fd6e57ac7638a87870b764f9e33b75d0 Size/MD5 checksum: 2360 da8d0535347a1666befc8e0e3a8757ed Size/MD5 checksum: 291809 62908cff06d03d63be8dfb24d32246f1 Alpha architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 80730 3352fbb77e0f4688ac4d61432bb67d5a ARM architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 73516 5ad5a858f40c88d5b9b370c6fb69c3bd Intel IA-32 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 64634 0157bd23decf30f047696ae7ccec67d0 Intel IA-64 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 101176 ccb2e4ff4dc330a9e92e53fae89298e7 HP Precision architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 81840 3806c681213d6a06f23d8a54f7f6e3b1 Motorola 680x0 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 63562 4e04dd2473dde9ced51167e45d9dad69 Big endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 64858 e5ac1f6678c0a721bd3a472ea47b0fd4 Little endian MIPS architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 64774 d320a2c04519b9aa4c776eb6b8cc4364 PowerPC architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 73272 f94a8d46fff4cac0963657d2231f83ae IBM S/390 architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 69986 cf4f9cc64f53fd6e5cf9d36e3abb058d Sun Sparc architecture: Size/MD5 checksum: 74130 80a8d51e6240b8c269e7fb1d4660e2a5 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
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