Debian Security Advisory
DSA-728-2 qpopper -- missing privilege release
- Date Reported:
- 26 May 2005
- Affected Packages:
- qpopper
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-1151, CVE-2005-1152.
- More information:
-
This advisory does only cover updated packages for Debian 3.0 alias woody. For reference below is the original advisory text:
Two bugs have been discovered in qpopper, an enhanced Post Office Protocol (POP3) server. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2005-1151
Jens Steube discovered that while processing local files owned or provided by a normal user privileges weren't dropped, which could lead to the overwriting or creation of arbitrary files as root.
- CAN-2005-1152
The upstream developers noticed that qpopper could be tricked to creating group- or world-writable files.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.4-2.woody.5.
For the testing distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.5-4sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed in version 4.0.5-4sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your qpopper package.
- CAN-2005-1151
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.4-2.woody.5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.4-2.woody.5_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper_4.0.5-4sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/q/qpopper/qpopper-drac_4.0.5-4sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the revised advisory.