Debian Security Advisory
DSA-590-1 gnats -- format string vulnerability
- Date Reported:
- 09 Nov 2004
- Affected Packages:
- gnats
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 278577.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 10609.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-0623. - More information:
-
Khan Shirani discovered a format string vulnerability in gnats, the GNU problem report management system. This problem may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 4.0-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnats package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.