Debian alert: listar buffer overflow

Posted by dave on Mar 19, 2002 6:07 AM EDT
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Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski reported a buffer overflow in the address_match of listar (a listserv style mailing-list manager).

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-123-1                   security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                         Wichert Akkerman
March 19, 2002
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Package        : listar
Problem type   : remote exploit
Debian-specific: no

Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski reported a buffer overflow
in the address_match of listar (a listserv style mailing-list manager).

This has been fixed in version 0.129a-2.potato1.

wget url
        will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
        will install the referenced file.


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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  Potato was released for alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc.


  Source archives:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/listar_0.129a-2.potato1.diff.gz
      MD5 checksum: a6e40875491815afc37d351b880da632
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/listar_0.129a-2.potato1.dsc
      MD5 checksum: c878e05868e010738c7af76126bf6f57
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/listar_0.129a.orig.tar.gz
      MD5 checksum: 0302a199d9e5ee180c9e6e55ee7a0780

  Alpha architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: 513df9fe1518dccf2017fe153956ced6
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_alpha.deb
      MD5 checksum: fe8c81f9b9cda57b07aa48a6b946cbb5

  ARM architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: 7c24002166961b3e038b48088665841d
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_arm.deb
      MD5 checksum: c6a88928d9ef5ec6297dda0f1db6eaf8

  Intel IA-32 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 51d454473b8f1ff57dc5ed5f38395dea
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_i386.deb
      MD5 checksum: 5d0f77b0846f256fc12e69146fb9b8b6

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: 593bfe2d9e25d2cb7154dcd11f5a36db
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_m68k.deb
      MD5 checksum: abf4288fc12d7d925cbb106aba436da2

  PowerPC architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 6410a8e2aa507cfe4e55ee4324b06ec3
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_powerpc.deb
      MD5 checksum: e28fd90f9ba8fd2bf1aa6605fea622cb

  Sun Sparc architecture:
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 3a14fd7b53a0e8b25dff34ec55c4d52c
    http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_sparc.deb
      MD5 checksum: 2a45b969ef367fcbaf8bd2851df711f7

  These packages will be moved into the stable distribution on its next
  revision.

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apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org

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