[SECURITY] [DSA 300-1] New Balsa packages fix buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 300-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
May 6th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : balsa
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0167

Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the
IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME,
GPG, PGP and threading. This code is imported in the Balsa package.
This problem could potentially allow a remote malicious IMAP server to
cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code
via a specially crafted mail folder.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.4-2.2.

The old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by
this problem.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your balsa package.

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 3.0 alias woody

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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      899 bfabf9c762d0babfc4c532d62d08eef8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    16793 1bc9ed8d33b0f8cfc699ae578b91a97d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:  2786340 dcf73fcd61bdcbf096e24b19caeefa5c

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:  1366172 ea50ad1b7baab90bcf47a63fc1d25d40

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   699500 84d8b1ee67c2bfca305b13f863ef27e5

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   685200 5c59b2b846383a2df303b95363c92258

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   909148 16fee79e2b9bd88a7e640caec331a80c

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   763024 1d0a4edd79d2dcc1c9aa219f62648c39

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   666182 627e92b40f86c46b19781633d7b8cb41

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   719484 ee2414ea4f1e670f743a97418bcfd728

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   711736 984658af1b6317e6b22d780f34e6faf8

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   707476 034e2676655ec263069253ed3ab19c48

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   700180 8cfd5d74cfae74175b6b05c1937ba29a

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:   702718 a0b50b9c59c1268c1bc7a6f8d3fdea92

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

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Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/&lt;pkg&gt;