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                                  CERT-Renater

                       Note d'Information No. 2005/VULN017
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DATE                      : 11/01/2005

HARDWARE PLATFORM(S)      : /

OPERATING SYSTEM(S)       : Systems running linpopup.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 632-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
January 10th, 2005                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : linpopup
Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CAN-2004-1282
Debian Bug     : 287044

Stephen Dranger discovered a buffer overflow in linpopup, an X11 port
of winpopup, running over Samba, that could lead to the execution of
arbitrary code when displaying a maliciously crafted message.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.0-2woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.2.0-7.

We recommend that you upgrade your linpopup 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/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1.dsc
       Size/MD5 checksum:      577 b5272d2427beb92f9572337c3907f7bf
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1.diff.gz
       Size/MD5 checksum:    14771 346c0d8fc894eb9660cbc945f53d7a48
     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0.orig.tar.gz
       Size/MD5 checksum:   145628 26503ac44971e334cbbb0a79dd796d93

   Alpha architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_alpha.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    84980 bd4cc7b95e42ae85891826fdd9345e5d

   ARM architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_arm.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    74870 b80b3706d1edb463b4d7ef0f56c87e79

   Intel IA-32 architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_i386.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    74384 2f4379854819b565ccccd7b12a6c49de

   Intel IA-64 architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_ia64.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    92484 04b4b1b3708af2b60c06e9f71f01713e

   HP Precision architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_hppa.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    79440 7f77468ea23f65fc9a8ffdb8f46cdea9

   Motorola 680x0 architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_m68k.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    74278 d796fa11bf939e3fd5bcbe1f4e2a4d13

   Big endian MIPS architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_mips.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    76782 55cfe5ccdd97d3cda45195adaf881149

   Little endian MIPS architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_mipsel.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    75740 0437ce2cd5f7eac82c53d093d3705e3e

   PowerPC architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_powerpc.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    76628 141d3f2f5ea14033380407ba5f947f5e

   IBM S/390 architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_s390.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    76724 741b61e7ba6bbe691b717a7e426ed3e5

   Sun Sparc architecture:

     http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linpopup/linpopup_1.2.0-2woody1_sparc.deb
       Size/MD5 checksum:    76130 a316e43db286b9ae298481d0bbe6fd29


   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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