Debian Security Advisory
DSA-521-1 sup -- format string vulnerability
- Date Reported:
- 18 Jun 2004
- Affected Packages:
- sup
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10571.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0451. - More information:
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jaguar@felinemenace.org discovered a format string vulnerability in sup, a set of programs to synchronize collections of files across a number of machines, whereby a remote attacker could potentially cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the supfilesrv process (this process does not run automatically by default).
CAN-2004-0451: format string vulnerabilities in sup via syslog(3) in logquit, logerr, loginfo functions
For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 1.8-8woody2.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you update your sup package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sup/sup_1.8-8woody2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.