Debian Security Advisory
DSA-796-1 affix -- remote command execution
- Date Reported:
- 01 Sep 2005
- Affected Packages:
- affix
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2716.
- More information:
-
Kevin Finisterre reports that affix, a package used to manage bluetooth sessions under Linux, uses the popen call in an unsafe fashion. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary commands on a vulnerable system.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain the affix package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.1-3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.2-3.
We recommend that you upgrade your affix package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_ia64.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_m68k.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_m68k.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/affix_2.1.1-3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix2_2.1.1-3_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/a/affix/libaffix-dev_2.1.1-3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.