-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 685-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx 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: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 685 7b2d6f448bda83cde50bfbdac6af3c37 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 60779 26c73195d7bc0ec32cb49d1a39c27cd9 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 24072376 3ac8d47ce8a61f2e585e6359efc53f07 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-el_21.2-1woody3_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 7123990 91e9e9e5d2a36e5e69854c5207f9e03c Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 13255430 dcbdbbdc5c2a226034477195f2c91ebf ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 12886726 7498feec697be0a9a3dffd0cbec52429 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 12847064 98374f09bde9ed2c757d778f30cdee25 Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 13583480 aae0aa9e6e47818e99a21a11b79bfa5a HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 13095946 987acfbbf7cdd80b43c3d73ae9b448b1 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 12777404 7d28afe74b5b742647053e5a7078307c Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 13076678 0dd0166bf19e0834a25e0da02cac7699 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 13032364 1518ecdaa0044ab33719c5cfb732f864 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 12929482 b00ec48f6b94043e23ae527316edbb02 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 12916492 1275283ccce7678b26914396baa466c1 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_sparc.deb 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: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCFIESW5ql+IAeqTIRAhvIAJ4gcnOvzb5jduYcfLY49mo5++r91wCfWqXB iN2lXxovHktw1wiUUbqQEkM= =lUPA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
