Debian Security Advisory
DSA-290-1 sendmail-wide -- char-to-int conversion
- Date Reported:
- 17 Apr 2003
- Affected Packages:
- sendmail-wide
- 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:
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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+3.5Wbeta-5.4
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 8.9.3+3.2W-25
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 8.12.9+3.5Wbeta-1
We recommend that you upgrade your sendmail-wide packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_alpha.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_i386.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_m68k.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_powerpc.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.9.3+3.2W-25_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sendmail-wide/sendmail-wide_8.12.3+3.5Wbeta-5.4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.