===================================================================== CERT-Renater Note d'Information No. 2004/VULN422 _____________________________________________________________________ DATE : 27/09/2004 HARDWARE PLATFORM(S) : / OPERATING SYSTEM(S) : Systems running getmail. ====================================================================== - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 553-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze September 27th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : getmail Vulnerability : symlink vulnerability Problem-Type : local Debian-specific: no CVE ID : CAN-2004-0880 CAN-2004-0881 Debian Bug : 272561 A security problem has been discovered in getmail, a POP3 and APOP mail gatherer and forwarder. An attacker with a shell account on the victims host could utilise getmail to overwrite arbitrary files when it is running as root. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.3.7-2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.2.5-1. We recommend that you upgrade your getmail package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- 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 - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/getmail/getmail_2.3.7-2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 583 6263f8d2d75ec3eb21dd302e0b9d6729 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/getmail/getmail_2.3.7-2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 2645 ff40d8f72744bfec8a963ece950e0bcd http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/getmail/getmail_2.3.7.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 70944 4eef6be77a4cbe1a86eef75affd31b05 Architecture independent components: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/g/getmail/getmail_2.3.7-2_all.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 74388 f2b9e79b1ddd8ef8bf719d4e1894f051 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ' and http://packages.debian.org/ ====================================================================== ========================================================= Les serveurs de référence du CERT-Renater http://www.urec.fr/securite http://www.cru.fr/securite http://www.renater.fr ========================================================= + CERT-RENATER | tel : 01-53-94-20-44 + + 151 bd de l'Hopital | fax : 01-53-94-20-41 + + 75013 Paris | email: certsvp@renater.fr + =========================================================