Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1114-1 hashcash -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 21 Jul 2006
- Affected Packages:
- hashcash
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 376444.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 18659.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3251. - More information:
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Andreas Seltenreich discovered a buffer overflow in hashcash, a postage payment scheme for email that is based on hash calculations, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via specially crafted entries.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.17-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hashcash package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hashcash/hashcash_1.17-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.