Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1165-1 capi4hylafax -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

01 Sep 2006

Affected Packages:

capi4hylafax

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-3126.

More information:

Lionel Elie Mamane discovered a security vulnerability in capi4hylafax, tools for faxing over a CAPI 2.0 device, that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands on the fax receiving system.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 01.02.03-10sarge2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 01.03.00.99.svn.300-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your capi4hylafax package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/capi4hylafax/capi4hylafax_01.02.03-10sarge2_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.