-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 229-2 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze January 15th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : imp Vulnerability : SQL injection Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2003-0025 The advisory DSA 229-1 contained a typo in one file which could cause certain installations to fail suddenly. For completeness, here is the original advisory text: Jouko Pynnonen discovered a probem with IMP, a web based IMAP mail program. Using carefully crafted URLs a remote attacker is able to inject SQL code into SQL queries without proper user authentication. Even though results of SQL queries aren't directly readable from the screen, an attacker might. update his mail signature to contain wanted query results and then view it on the preferences page of IMP. The impact of SQL injection depends heavily on the underlying database and its configuration. If PostgreSQL is used, it's possible to execute multiple complete SQL queries separated by semicolons. The database contains session id's so the attacker might hijack sessions of people currently logged in and read their mail. In the worst case, if the hordemgr user has the required privilege to use the COPY SQL command (found in PostgreSQL at least), a remote user may read or write to any file the database user (postgres) can. The attacker may then be able to run arbitrary shell commands by writing them to the postgres user's ~/.psqlrc; they'd be run when the user starts the psql command which under some configurations happens regularly from a cron script. For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.6-5.2. For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.2.6-0.potato.5.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed in version 2.2.6-8. We recommend that you upgrade your IMP 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 2.2 alias potato - --------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6-0.potato.5.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 557 44d08f19a1448314a6b909d72ccdc573 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6-0.potato.5.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 66875 c7d2431d975834000d08b86c7fe9df91 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 361731 8f7920c8173e1ef2724cb25a311f9ca8 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6-0.potato.5.2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 410804 6aedc56344d1eea874c7ae39f3e536cd Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6-5.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 638 d2504b9b549e73c448851d291821a5eb http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6-5.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 95209 2a18586731f2f3ae03353eb346eed8e4 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 361731 8f7920c8173e1ef2724cb25a311f9ca8 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/imp/imp_2.2.6-5.2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 426822 84d31910cec8dce85e00a89f5961307e These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+JZY9W5ql+IAeqTIRAoCZAKChyHuPuhwzbAghehNDSYwqN1KHjACfQ+lz pi89kxAU0XGfHhsTZX7FJCQ= =iQJC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
