Summary
The remote host is missing an update to hypermail
announced via advisory DSA 248-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20248-1
Insight
Ulf Harnhammar discovered two problems in hypermail, a program to create HTML archives of mailing lists.
An attacker could craft a long filename for an attachment that would overflow two buffers when a certain option for interactive use was given, opening the possibility to inject arbitrary code. This code would then be executed under the user id hypermail runs as, mostly as a local user. Automatic and silent use of hypermail does not seem to be affected.
The CGI program mail, which is not installed by the Debian package, does a reverse look-up of the user's IP number and copies the resulting hostname into a fixed-size buffer. A specially crafted DNS reply could overflow this buffer, opening the program to an exploit.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.3-2.0.
For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0b25-1.1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.1.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hypermail packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2003-0057 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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