Debian Security Advisory
DSA-078-1 slrn -- remote command invocation
- Date Reported:
- 24 Sep 2001
- Affected Packages:
- slrn
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 3364.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-1035. - More information:
-
Byrial Jensen found a nasty problem in slrn (a threaded news reader).
The notice on slrn-announce describes it as follows:
When trying to decode binaries, the built-in code executes any shell scripts the article might contain, apparently assuming they would be some kind of self-extracting archive.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6.2-9potato2 by removing this feature.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.