[SECURITY] [DSA 290-1] New sendmail-wide packages fix DoS and arbitrary code execution

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 290-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
April 17th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : sendmail-wide
Vulnerability : char-to-int conversion
Problem-Type : local, maybe remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0161
CERT advisories: VU#897604 CA-2003-12

Michal Zalewski discovered a buffer overflow, triggered by a char to
int conversion, in the address parsing code in sendmail, a widely used
powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This problem
is potentially remotely exploitable.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been
fixed in version 8.9.3+3.2W-25

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 8.12.9+3.5Wbeta-1

We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail-wide packages.

Upgrade Instructions

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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

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      541 17dd53835e894bc4213d2555384aff75
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1273704 63cd21c58e45810b21601025c164a85e

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   302722 8b36867359dd0267d8664b290899ec6b

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   217690 f98998b9467ce368b11a862dbe5d4e82

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   202538 e56cc6579ae7da5693047a7e9ceec33e

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   242694 33217654adca1e26bf9e27b4fb96050e

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   236530 32fabe460c63c6fd343d4741104a73f3

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      738 26af096d7a10d63aec72a0b38982973d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:   326292 b98e1e9bb74233e1842a0562912b748d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1870451 4c7036e8042bae10a90da4a84a717963

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   440622 d2800104eff39be1a94b94d049e77fc1

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   369412 d63f3107518282fc892835c5251afdcd

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   328794 139dcce3e908b45be6ecd74531279184

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   574908 7ebf517265802b0abaf41d3eeca27b6d

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   413604 9f353dbc5f1c3eca9e34da0e34f227c5

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   300726 6b9f6f9c143f2ae0d5e3b95c9e74d90e

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   378324 22c8467712e9da461043110a86c23dcc

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   380264 ae297336eb7a608f4cdacb3b5cdbf4aa

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   362854 522d8c46a0e8e6b6c143e6e7eac502e6

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   354776 62f538f78d8d17519c74064473cad1c2

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   355964 01de0e06a7bc0fde26b08b7d84e53246

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

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