Debian Security Advisory

DSA-123-1 listar -- remote exploit

Date Reported:

19 Mar 2002

Affected Packages:

listar

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 4176.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-0467.

More information:

Janusz Niewiadomski and Wojciech Purczynski reported a buffer overflow in the address_match of listar (a listserv style mailing-list manager).

This has been fixed in version 0.129a-2.potato1.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/listar_0.129a-2.potato1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/listar_0.129a-2.potato1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/listar_0.129a.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/listar-cgi_0.129a-2.potato1_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/listar_0.129a-2.potato1_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.