Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1659-1 libspf2 -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 23 Oct 2008
- Affected Packages:
- libspf2
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2469.
- More information:
-
Dan Kaminsky discovered that libspf2, an implementation of the Sender Policy Framework (SPF) used by mail servers for mail filtering, handles malformed TXT records incorrectly, leading to a buffer overflow condition (CVE-2008-2469).
Note that the SPF configuration template in Debian's Exim configuration recommends to use libmail-spf-query-perl, which does not suffer from this issue.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5-4+etch1.
For the testing distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.2.5.dfsg-5+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your libspf2 package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2_1.2.5-4+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2_1.2.5-4+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2_1.2.5-4+etch1.dsc
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/spfquery_1.2.5-4+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-2_1.2.5-4+etch1_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/libs/libspf2/libspf2-dev_1.2.5-4+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.