Debian: New razor packages fix potential DOS
Summary
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------Debian Security Advisory DSA 738-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Michael Stone July 05, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------Package : razor Vulnerability : email header parsing error Problem type : remote DOS Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CAN-2005-2024 A vulnerability was discovered in the way that Razor parses certain email headers that could potentially be used to crash the Razor program, causing a denial of service (DOS). For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.670-1sarge2. The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this issue. We recommend that you upgrade your razor 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 3.1 (sarge) - ------------------ sarge was released for alpha, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: Size/MD5 checksum: 799 88b6def693d8e884f636acf9337344f1 Size/MD5 checksum: 86705 0118b6030ea261ea85e73a55cc7eac8e Size/MD5 checksum: 10699 ed53476451c87dbf876697e198083973 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) Size/MD5 checksum: 117030 ab3c6043749da7b66aa468f8fec794a7 arm architecture (ARM) Size/MD5 checksum: 115572 01ee173b14d45f1f576dd3b4db6ba3e8 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) Size/MD5 checksum: 117146 82889def9ab647e075cedf658a2e7707 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) Size/MD5 checksum: 116070 9171153ba7bf5c0c679c14a8303d777d ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) Size/MD5 checksum: 118378 d1ed58ed88d490cad82b8cde72745b6d m68k architecture (Motorola Mc680x0) Size/MD5 checksum: 115938 6a620f25c1895e3ac80ba94c57931874 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 114962 3a771fb3bc2b88b6606121541f4e1c80 mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) Size/MD5 checksum: 114978 3c6f16f40f9820e4624c277969c85947 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) Size/MD5 checksum: 117502 2860b774a37ed2eaae9efd365e05ceaf s390 architecture (IBM S/390) Size/MD5 checksum: 115738 02789063e04d63a1eea5f2bf88745c5f sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) Size/MD5 checksum: 115848 8a264ab5802cf6764db4354facdd4ea0 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------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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