Debian Security Advisory
DSA-995-1 metamail -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 13 Mar 2006
- Affected Packages:
- metamail
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 352482.
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 16611.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0709. - More information:
-
Ulf Härnhammar discovered a buffer overflow in metamail, an implementation of MIME (Multi-purpose Internet Mail Extensions), that could lead to a denial of service or potentially execute arbitrary code when processing messages.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-45woody.4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-47sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.7-51.
We recommend that you upgrade your metamail package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-45woody.4_sparc.deb
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/metamail/metamail_2.7-47sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.