Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1600-1 sympa -- dos

Date Reported:
01 Jul 2008
Affected Packages:
sympa
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 475163.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1648.
More information:

It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.3-1.2+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.4-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your sympa package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_mips.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_sparc.deb

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