-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 386-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman September 18th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : libmailtools-perl Vulnerability : input validation Problem-Type : local, remote Debian-specific: no CVE Ids : CAN-2002-1271 The SuSE security team discovered during an audit that the Mail::Mailer module, a Perl module used for sending email, whereby potentially untrusted input is passed to a program such as mailx, which may interpret certain escape sequences as commands to be executed. This bug has been fixed by removing support for programs such as mailx as a transport for sending mail. Instead, alternative mechanisms are used. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.44-1woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon. We recommend that you update your libmailtools-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: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 678 ab509c1bbeae26c200d1fec924dde579 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 4302 6ceda7fb60d34166280705507de7c4d7 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 41496 4e00dbd04db2dc4a6fdfce6f848be158 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 77952 bf650f36e83e287f4003386ed5ee62e6 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/mailtools_1.44-1woody2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 9980 cc6be5da5273b3f8efd4266163fe83f1 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 v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/ak4cArxCt0PiXR4RAv83AKCCq5FRaYBxtJXuSMIcOn9/yHjXYgCfZxmg wvtywrYLYLVTtMKJ6h4CSVM= =FUNY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
