Debian Security Advisory
DSA-468-1 emil -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 24 Mar 2004
- Affected Packages:
- emil
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9974.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0152, CVE-2004-0153. - More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a number of vulnerabilities in emil, a filter for converting Internet mail messages. The vulnerabilities fall into two categories:
- CAN-2004-0152
Buffer overflows in (1) the encode_mime function, (2) the encode_uuencode function, (3) the decode_uuencode function. These bugs could allow a carefully crafted email message to cause the execution of arbitrary code supplied with the message when it is acted upon by emil.
- CAN-2004-0153
Format string bugs in statements which print various error messages. The exploit potential of these bugs has not been established, and is probably configuration-dependent.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your emil package.
- CAN-2004-0152
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.