-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1600-1 security@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp July 01, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : sympa Vulnerability : dos Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1648 Debian Bug : 475163 It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages. For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.3-1.2+etch1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.4-4. We recommend that you upgrade your sympa 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 4.0 alias etch - ------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 625 c7e720e56b1c4e9778cea822ed150a19 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 96804 a93d8ec3dcbc0a0aed99e513c5749c0e http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 5102528 355cb9174841205831191c93a83da895 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3589148 26b92215ed7b17531c3702ff76b30901 amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_amd64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3591854 531781d522ad5f02e6c5b658883ed37d arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3590606 dc3437760b7db4761f90e992e3638c52 hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3591482 5601933860831577cb017cb0aa3b31fe i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3567454 0c6e3d6046f7d0e9920ed7ce9780b103 ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3571256 c294184494968264ff0857fc2b907711 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3584362 1b3371fe22966b198a3c338167e71909 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3568314 57c566c13cd31f66bbe3652b4c9ea3e7 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3568574 afab57a71590dcdd685746b6500040b0 sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 3568016 0bf312e31bb5df28404ea40842845caf 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 v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIapKKwM/Gs81MDZ0RAqAtAJ4qQlnuRralKZTMQhtDqYvMXfaqdQCgof4S 6REh7OX9zxqgWYGHqQWtEpQ= =ANTa -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----