Debian Security Advisory
DSA-902-1 xmail -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 21 Nov 2005
- Affected Packages:
- xmail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2943.
- More information:
-
A buffer overflow has been discovered in the sendmail program of xmail, an advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with group mail privileges.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain xmail packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-3sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.22-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your xmail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail-doc_1.21-3sarge1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.