Debian Security Advisory
DSA-186-1 log2mail -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 01 Nov 2002
- Affected Packages:
- log2mail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1251.
- More information:
-
Enrico Zini discovered a buffer overflow in log2mail, a daemon for watching logfiles and sending lines with matching patterns via mail. The log2mail daemon is started upon system boot and runs as root. A specially crafted (remote) log message could overflow a static buffer, potentially leaving log2mail to execute arbitrary code as root.
This problem has been fixed in version 0.2.5.1 the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 0.2.6-1 for the unstable distribution (sid). The old stable distribution (potato) is not affected since it doesn't contain a log2mail package.
We recommend that you upgrade your log2mail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_ia64.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/log2mail/log2mail_0.2.5.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.