Debian Security Advisory
DSA-855-1 weex -- format string vulnerability
- Date Reported:
- 10 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- weex
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 332424.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-3150. - More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in weex, a non-interactive FTP client for updating web pages, that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the clients machine.
For the oldstable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.1-4woody2.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.1-6sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.1-6sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your weex package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-4woody2_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/w/weex/weex_2.6.1-6sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.