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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2008.0662 -- [UNIX/Linux][Debian]
New sympa packages fix denial of service
2 July 2008
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: sympa
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX)
Impact: Denial of Service
Access: Remote/Unauthenticated
CVE Names: CVE-2008-1648
Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1560
Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on
platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators
running sympa check for an updated version of the software for
their operating system.
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Debian Security Advisory DSA-1600-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Steve Kemp
July 01, 2008 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : sympa
Vulnerability : dos
Problem type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id(s) : CVE-2008-1648
Debian Bug : 475163
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.
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 4.0 alias etch
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Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 625 c7e720e56b1c4e9778cea822ed150a19
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 96804 a93d8ec3dcbc0a0aed99e513c5749c0e
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 5102528 355cb9174841205831191c93a83da895
alpha architecture (DEC Alpha)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3589148 26b92215ed7b17531c3702ff76b30901
amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_amd64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3591854 531781d522ad5f02e6c5b658883ed37d
arm architecture (ARM)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3590606 dc3437760b7db4761f90e992e3638c52
hppa architecture (HP PA RISC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3591482 5601933860831577cb017cb0aa3b31fe
i386 architecture (Intel ia32)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3567454 0c6e3d6046f7d0e9920ed7ce9780b103
ia64 architecture (Intel ia64)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3571256 c294184494968264ff0857fc2b907711
mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian))
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3584362 1b3371fe22966b198a3c338167e71909
powerpc architecture (PowerPC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3568314 57c566c13cd31f66bbe3652b4c9ea3e7
s390 architecture (IBM S/390)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3568574 afab57a71590dcdd685746b6500040b0
sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC)
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 3568016 0bf312e31bb5df28404ea40842845caf
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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