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:
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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
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.diff.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.