[SECURITY] [DSA-386-1] New libmailtools-perl packages fix input validation bug

Debian Security Advisory DSA 386-1 [email protected]
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
September 18th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq

Package : libmailtools-perl
Vulnerability : input validation
Problem-Type : local, remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2002-1271

The SuSE security team discovered during an audit that the
Mail::Mailer module, a Perl module used for sending email, whereby
potentially untrusted input is passed to a program such as mailx,
which may interpret certain escape sequences as commands to be
executed.

This bug has been fixed by removing support for programs such as mailx
as a transport for sending mail. Instead, alternative mechanisms are
used.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.44-1woody1.

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

We recommend that you update your libmailtools-perl 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 3.0 alias woody

Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.dsc
  Size/MD5 checksum:      678 ab509c1bbeae26c200d1fec924dde579
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2.diff.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:     4302 6ceda7fb60d34166280705507de7c4d7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44.orig.tar.gz
  Size/MD5 checksum:    41496 4e00dbd04db2dc4a6fdfce6f848be158

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/libmailtools-perl_1.44-1woody2_all.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:    77952 bf650f36e83e287f4003386ed5ee62e6
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libm/libmailtools-perl/mailtools_1.44-1woody2_all.deb
  Size/MD5 checksum:     9980 cc6be5da5273b3f8efd4266163fe83f1

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

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