Debian Security Advisory

DSA-401-1 hylafax -- format strings

Date Reported:

17 Nov 2003

Affected Packages:

hylafax

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 9005.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0886.

More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.1.1-3.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.1.1-3.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax_4.1.1.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-doc_4.1.1-3_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-client_4.1.1-3_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/h/hylafax/hylafax-server_4.1.1-3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.