Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1064-1 cscope -- buffer overflows
- Date Reported:
- 19 May 2006
- Affected Packages:
- cscope
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 340177.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-2541. - More information:
-
Jason Duell discovered that cscope, a source code browsing tool, does not verify the length of file names sourced in include statements, which may potentially lead to the execution of arbitrary code through specially crafted source code files.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 15.3-1woody3.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 15.5-1.1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your cscope package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.3-1woody3_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cscope/cscope_15.5-1.1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.