[SECURITY] [DSA-373-1] New autorespond packages fix buffer overflow

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 373-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
August 16th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

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Package : autorespond
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2003-0654

Christian Jaeger discovered a buffer overflow in autorespond, an email
autoresponder used with qmail. This vulnerability could potentially
be exploited by a remote attacker to gain the privileges of a user who
has configured qmail to forward messages to autorespond. This
vulnerability is currently not believed to be exploitable due to
incidental limits on the length of the problematic input, but there
may be situations in which these limits do not apply.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.2-2woody1.

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

We recommend that you update your autorespond 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/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      584 d03eea2873909e5eac15989c2c441680
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     3247 0cdaa54cd1dc0431d87cce6df8926a81
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     7300 aa81f2c02b36ccd3ce58c60f0f89683e

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_alpha.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    10230 5e0e59c69c512391e735e517769b1285

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_arm.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     8976 e8a488cf0196a1f21ceb5432852287ab

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_i386.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9266 d5bbd4d908a48b15257d519810021979

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_ia64.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    12186 4063758c3d51b4a3231cb0e315111000

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_hppa.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9724 74cb835115b25c77881cff95e18362e3

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_m68k.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9046 153a7e36e4c7c9aaea59127f0d2f8291

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_mips.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9332 7f992e0f0b94bdfd63b0ceb3d9376653

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_mipsel.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9328 5cf27bfc3b68e06384cc6766657080fc

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_powerpc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9178 624e5a24f536d5e22a7411c84b1ae704

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_s390.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9594 514fd6de0dfdfe9aee6b90971c027a37

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/contrib/a/autorespond/autorespond_2.0.2-2woody1_sparc.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    11628 ae43ac7ee5308ee5b491329c81365075

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

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