Debian Security Advisory

DSA-278-1 sendmail -- char-to-int conversion

Date Reported:

04 Apr 2003

Affected Packages:

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 7230.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0161.
CERT's vulnerabilities, advisories and incident notes: VU#897604, CA-2003-12.

More information:

Michal Zalewski discovered a buffer overflow, triggered by a char to int conversion, in the address parsing code in sendmail, a widely used powerful, efficient, and scalable mail transport agent. This problem is potentially remotely exploitable.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.3-6.3.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 8.9.3-26.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.9-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.9.3-26_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail-doc_8.12.3-6.3_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/libmilter-dev_8.12.3-6.3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail/sendmail_8.12.3-6.3_sparc.deb

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

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