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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2004.0717 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 590-1
New gnats packages fix arbitrary code execution
10 November 2004
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: gnats
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Linux variants
UNIX variants
Mac OS X
Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CAN-2004-0623
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-590
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 590-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
November 9th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : gnats
Vulnerability : format string vulnerability
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2004-0623
BugTraq ID : 10609
Debian Bug : 278577
Khan Shirani discovered a format string vulnerability in gnats, the
GNU problem report management system. This problem may be exploited
to execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.0-7.
We recommend that you upgrade your gnats package.
Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 572 a50e8e6bcea84deb584a0427bfdbc96d
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1570021 b0f7f28328e21a7ce35e3315bf2bca0b
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1050882 f604c53e94753708ff44e533c39c43e2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 685026 6185e02fc2775180bf2c5ec11239b69a
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 880912 3d2662f156e638cd1a52fd609dcab941
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 602334 8fa0573e4f85c9363d53c6020b88ddd9
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 866718 341223ed8802f9db37d635f885aeea18
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 592452 d02b91bae6efc9628aab7d53236c6a7b
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1242616 2365d9b58be38a9ab75550c14aa021c0
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 778954 72a9110a68fbba73b5c8ed6427ce18df
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 983490 b5f6d8bbff6ac02830b01a4e02284e75
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 652166 7c5057561328f30ec1177054ed57e638
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 822588 a539353ebf28be0523f808c1e1a4ca64
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 572790 472ed96d0bbbc993e0321af5d83bf394
Big endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 975242 e11de0c1cc6e7e85321411cd1066602a
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 644922 85b1d1e6146c3bcdc655f1d120fc3361
Little endian MIPS architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 973682 aaf838802193112d9ec2ffaeec9ef65f
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 645350 6cc250414c90dc14ffebce38846c3cf7
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 909244 51c380ca38ba98a93312edfb99431da7
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 614968 dcb3e1db579471f1dabc73d8a75b52ac
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 895272 649ee321f435ee1340f854387fa66c67
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 607174 2993bb4ebe7845926dee6641362569f2
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 898306 602f6382b3bef02e9d4e2a8009c46212
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/gnats/gnats-user_3.999.beta1+cvs20020303-2_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 608376 3f6bab03dd22a70e2007f1cb16f7b996
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next update.
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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>
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