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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1560-1] New sympa packages fix denial of service

    From Steve Kemp@1:229/2 to All on Tue Jul 1 22:30:26 2008
    From: [email protected]

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    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-1600-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
    July 01, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : sympa
    Vulnerability : dos
    Problem type : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1648
    Debian Bug : 475163

    It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would
    crash when processing certain types of malformed messages.

    For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.3-1.2+etch1.

    For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
    version 5.3.4-4.

    We recommend that you upgrade your sympa 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 4.0 alias etch
    - -------------------------------

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 625 c7e720e56b1c4e9778cea822ed150a19
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 96804 a93d8ec3dcbc0a0aed99e513c5749c0e
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5102528 355cb9174841205831191c93a83da895

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3589148 26b92215ed7b17531c3702ff76b30901

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3591854 531781d522ad5f02e6c5b658883ed37d

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3590606 dc3437760b7db4761f90e992e3638c52

    hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_hppa.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3591482 5601933860831577cb017cb0aa3b31fe

    i386 architecture (Intel ia32)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_i386.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3567454 0c6e3d6046f7d0e9920ed7ce9780b103

    ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_ia64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3571256 c294184494968264ff0857fc2b907711

    mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_mips.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3584362 1b3371fe22966b198a3c338167e71909

    powerpc architecture (PowerPC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_powerpc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3568314 57c566c13cd31f66bbe3652b4c9ea3e7

    s390 architecture (IBM S/390)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_s390.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3568574 afab57a71590dcdd685746b6500040b0

    sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_sparc.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 3568016 0bf312e31bb5df28404ea40842845caf


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

    - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    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]
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