Date: 18 November 2003
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AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution
ESB-2003.0790 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 401-1
New hylafax packages fix remote root exploit
18 November 2003
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AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product: hylafax
Publisher: Debian
Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Linux
Impact: Root Compromise
Access Required: Remote
CVE Names: CAN-2003-0886
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Debian Security Advisory DSA 401-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
November 17th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : hylafax
Vulnerability : format strings
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Id : CAN-2003-0886
The SuSE Security Team discovered several exploitable formats string
vulnerabilities in hylafax, a flexible client/server fax system, which
could lead to executing arbitrary code as root on the fax server.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.1-1.3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.1.8-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax packages.
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/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.1.1-3.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 735 b8fe580c866ff5f41f33968b1d887711
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.1.1-3.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 114817 8f7bb279ca6de968d9935d49be6c0b73
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.1.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 1287689 1ed081750be70a800708699b7568e17e
Architecture independent components:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-doc_4.1.1-3_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 318134 a51adcd402cc63ac30d1f3916e3f9008
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 556178 ca03b15efeabe09caff0eebfcc1a6878
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1362196 788f541800c0edc83dd5fb63a2d48f03
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 445490 c9e6b97f99d34b273e1621f01ac4ec64
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1095270 777a6abc7f34bed3d02ce59d1cb9749c
Intel IA-32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 462246 6a01963bfa162e85b7b435423c4dfb78
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1132360 3d95da998b237ff6ee5d3e1c83c643d2
Intel IA-64 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 615592 8024cbcc10a6509901704781b6fea936
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1491390 cce44c1ac06398f41a5d4c81d7d46622
HP Precision architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 501436 4af21210c86667078350155f53e1b31b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1231050 b574596dda3491a5d5d6bf81c42e178c
Motorola 680x0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 451122 7e518003ff362d079857932aa9fc2e41
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1099804 4277294e757e743729026cfc6040421c
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 450226 6d8479dbe45f29b0a9e6374f21c4d624
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1103986 5b1bb52062f37bc1bcaf586aabd801d2
IBM S/390 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 441118 971d6f348be876943bc265637fe5dc15
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1086638 2403cba5785c76e5fc40e233152d87f8
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 433472 5ebdf2527ebea6dbb17d334d19d0553b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 1082208 ca27d3dbc5165c6227e77ee5f863c69e
These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
its next revision.
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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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