[SECURITY] [DSA 300-1] New Balsa packages fix buffer overflow

From: Martin Schulze (joeyat_private)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 01:40:18 PDT

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    Debian Security Advisory DSA 300-1                     securityat_private
    http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
    May 6th, 2003                           http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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    Package        : balsa
    Vulnerability  : buffer overflow
    Problem-Type   : remote
    Debian-specific: no
    CVE Id         : CAN-2003-0167
    
    Byrial Jensen discovered a couple of off-by-one buffer overflow in the
    IMAP code of Mutt, a text-oriented mail reader supporting IMAP, MIME,
    GPG, PGP and threading.  This code is imported in the Balsa package.
    This problem could potentially allow a remote malicious IMAP server to
    cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code
    via a specially crafted mail folder.
    
    For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
    version 1.2.4-2.2.
    
    The old stable distribution (potato) does not seem to be affected by
    this problem.
    
    For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
    
    We recommend that you upgrade your balsa 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/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2.dsc
          Size/MD5 checksum:      899 bfabf9c762d0babfc4c532d62d08eef8
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2.diff.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:    16793 1bc9ed8d33b0f8cfc699ae578b91a97d
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4.orig.tar.gz
          Size/MD5 checksum:  2786340 dcf73fcd61bdcbf096e24b19caeefa5c
    
      Alpha architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_alpha.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:  1366172 ea50ad1b7baab90bcf47a63fc1d25d40
    
      ARM architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_arm.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   699500 84d8b1ee67c2bfca305b13f863ef27e5
    
      Intel IA-32 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_i386.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   685200 5c59b2b846383a2df303b95363c92258
    
      Intel IA-64 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_ia64.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   909148 16fee79e2b9bd88a7e640caec331a80c
    
      HP Precision architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_hppa.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   763024 1d0a4edd79d2dcc1c9aa219f62648c39
    
      Motorola 680x0 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_m68k.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   666182 627e92b40f86c46b19781633d7b8cb41
    
      Big endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_mips.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   719484 ee2414ea4f1e670f743a97418bcfd728
    
      Little endian MIPS architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_mipsel.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   711736 984658af1b6317e6b22d780f34e6faf8
    
      PowerPC architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_powerpc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   707476 034e2676655ec263069253ed3ab19c48
    
      IBM S/390 architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_s390.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   700180 8cfd5d74cfae74175b6b05c1937ba29a
    
      Sun Sparc architecture:
    
        http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/balsa/balsa_1.2.4-2.2_sparc.deb
          Size/MD5 checksum:   702718 a0b50b9c59c1268c1bc7a6f8d3fdea92
    
    
      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-announceat_private
    Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/>
    
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