Debian Security Advisory
DSA-670-1 emacs20 -- format string
- Date Reported:
- 08 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- emacs20
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0100.
- More information:
-
Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs, the well-known editor. Via connecting to a malicious POP server an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of group mail.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 20.7-13.3.
The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain an Emacs20 package anymore.
We recommend that you upgrade your emacs packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20-el_20.7-13.3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs20/emacs20_20.7-13.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.