Debian Security Advisory
DSA-527-1 pavuk -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 03 Jul 2004
- Affected Packages:
- pavuk
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10633.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0456. - More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a vulnerability in pavuk, a file retrieval program, whereby an oversized HTTP 305 response sent by a malicious server could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the pavuk process.
For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9pl28-1woody1.
pavuk is no longer included in the unstable distribution of Debian.
We recommend that you update your pavuk package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.