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  • [SECURITY] [DSA 1881-1] New cyrus-imapd packages fix arbitrary code exe

    From Nico Golde@1:229/2 to All on Mon Sep 7 15:30:09 2009
    From: [email protected]

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    - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1881-1 [email protected] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde September 7th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
    - --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    Package : cyrus-imapd-2.2
    Vulnerability : buffer overflow
    Problem type : local (remote)
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE ID : none assigned yet

    It was discovered that the SIEVE component of cyrus-imapd, a highly scalable enterprise mail system, is vulnerable to a buffer overflow when processing SIEVE scripts. Due to incorrect use of the sizeof() operator an attacker is able to pass a negative length to snprintf() calls resulting in large positive values due to integer conversion. This causes a buffer overflow which can be used to elevate privileges to the cyrus system user. An attacker who is able to install SIEVE scripts executed by the server is therefore able to read and modify arbitrary email messages on the system.


    For the oldstable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.2.13-10+etch2.

    For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
    version 2.2.13-14+lenny1.

    For the testing (squeeze) and unstable (sid) distribution, this problem
    will be fixed soon.


    We recommend that you upgrade your cyrus-imapd-2.2 packages.

    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
    - -------------------------------

    Debian (oldstable)
    - ------------------

    Oldstable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

    Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-imapd-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2.diff.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 258553 dcbaf7e6c1f9ce896d2b2e75215797bd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-imapd-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2.dsc
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1298 7eac896a46888f98ab76fd6287c5eb2f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-imapd-2.2_2.2.13.orig.tar.gz
    Size/MD5 checksum: 2109770 3ff679714836d1d7b1e1df0e026d4844

    Architecture independent packages:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-doc-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 226846 45903c38c5442ab0bc393b09a374d28c
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-admin-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_all.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 80188 0fee8aa188fca06ca24f905e437f3621

    alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-murder-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1207538 1c4cc5eb3f83d0586e9ac3d7f0881a32
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-imapd-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1007132 7bcdb4a2bf9aff702bfa0ebb9708bc56
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-clients-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 138358 acdcfa535f091c083e3c10136c033958
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/libcyrus-imap-perl22_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 197654 f7305fa014e8b137efbc8e6dad92bd81
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-nntpd-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 649710 46733c9a34e7df4ef49a91037f6e667d
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-dev-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 302254 ff005ebe300d0b94233c335300ed7f51
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-pop3d-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 297038 0c57dae1e59453a42263338c8d4fb4bf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-common-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_alpha.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 6053052 0a5c3aaaf6774d38e4d016f207996d39

    amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-nntpd-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 612176 81da459bcdf3a79aeeb6db27ecdd8497
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-clients-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 132766 371d24b4e829b8f76795b209efdde682
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/libcyrus-imap-perl22_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 184892 60763da463da9578deea8a4eb73e5ccf
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-dev-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 270150 2f4de9d10caf4904692cc69714f91a4a
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-imapd-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 944062 22a44fea5b208b74dc1bd65bfd9698c6
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-pop3d-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 282322 7fe526f08b1ec1841f78b01f0a260552
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-murder-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 1143778 526cabf2a03e5ddf8887dee32874d9cc
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-common-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_amd64.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 5724502 d2928b12c103294c4c6a2eb690720abc

    arm architecture (ARM)

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-clients-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_arm.deb
    Size/MD5 checksum: 128294 a2febef3ad9a2b403755790001f700dd
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cyrus-imapd-2.2/cyrus-murder-2.2_2.2.13-10+etch2_arm.deb

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