Debian Security Advisory
DSA-637-1 exim-tls -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 13 Jan 2005
- Affected Packages:
- exim-tls
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 289046.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0021. - More information:
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Philip Hazel announced a buffer overflow in the host_aton function in exim-tls, the SSL-enabled version of the default mail-transport-agent in Debian, which can lead to the execution of arbitrary code via an illegal IPv6 address.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.35-3woody3.
In the unstable distribution (sid) this package does not exist anymore.
We recommend that you upgrade your exim-tls package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/exim-tls/exim-tls_3.35-3woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.