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Home > Products and services > CSIRTUK advisories > Advisories archive > March 2005 > Two Debian Security Advisories: 1. DSA 699-1 - netkit-telnet-ssl 2. DSA 700-1 - mailreader

March 2005

Two Debian Security Advisories: 1. DSA 699-1 - netkit-telnet-ssl 2. DSA 700-1 - mailreader

ID: 00255
Ref: 234/2005
Date: 30 March 2005:13:55:27
Version: 1

Title: Two Debian Security Advisories: 1. DSA 699-1 - netkit-telnet-ssl 2. DSA 700-1 - mailreader
Abstract:
Vendors affected: Debian
Operating systems affected: Debian
Applications affected: Debian

Title
=====

Two Debian Security Advisories:

1. DSA 699-1 - netkit-telnet-ssl

2. DSA 700-1 - mailreader

Detail
======

1. Researchers discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of
the LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients. This can lead to the
execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious server.

2. Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a
cross-site scripting problem in mailreader, a simple, but powerful WWW
mail reader system, when displaying messages of the MIME types
text/enriched or text/richtext.



1.




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Debian Security Advisory DSA 699-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
March 29th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : netkit-telnet-ssl
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0469

iDEFENSE researchers discovered a buffer overflow in the handling of
the LINEMODE suboptions in telnet clients. This can lead to the
execution of arbitrary code when connected to a malicious server.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 0.17.17+0.1-2woody4.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your telnet-ssl 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/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/netkit-telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 669 edcae9a56571c23861cc772d116f6d9b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/netkit-telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 9099 0c6a68a7522269cb7c7f18e08e9f3228
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/netkit-telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 167658 faf2d112bc4d44f522bad3bc73da8d6d

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 101196 46f45337d4a60eb738b077770e3aa2a4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 57024 b2a33f4b5143da8a36ee78b75850c6c2

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 85194 1db7e7432d8025531b869ae5c737014b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody3_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 48596 ad29db7a35ad3ee4e3d2c5c411b0edb9

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 85608 6b9e94d7acf3274a62a78e98b069060b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 46730 09bf8699c1af6a5f4f9e913d7ef92759

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 123272 d81d94ec52c655bb8496bf126c9077aa
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 66728 e1879d40f611846bb7f787245feb8fee

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 86624 677730710e0adac9cb6cbe1d1cca742b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54054 df3349ebb866ada9bc08a3dabf681bcc

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 81534 9007bc1b9ce71d54eda4da588269e39b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 45494 8bd015cf665ed260e8943aaf9a88d5a9

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 97454 ad228bd9d0353478740fde78095b8332
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52346 b22cdea93cc2d406144f7797918ba348

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 97292 fe280b5296350918ef3f99bd86c1e3e8
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 52334 816d5bce2968f676d3261a1d3e9e5e21

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 88238 c0b09580e81ff24c5e04d7ae0e859645
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 48882 f1ab39899f6b2892cae81b8b4dfb2d16

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 88746 b4a754f74fe3bc462488c62a137fa422
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 50562 fe91806b369af4ff31030c1079b7b9bd

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnet-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 89356 dd5d9462b3b86d40f0f67a9ec86adc57
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netkit-telnet-ssl/telnetd-ssl_0.17.17+0.1-2woody4_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 54646 5d694a26621ef73ce5d2c0e6ed9bc887


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/

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2.


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Debian Security Advisory DSA 700-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
March 30th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : mailreader
Vulnerability : missing input sanitising
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0386

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a
cross-site scripting problem in mailreader, a simple, but powerful WWW
mail reader system, when displaying messages of the MIME types
text/enriched or text/richtext.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.29-5woody2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.29-11.

We recommend that you upgrade your mailreader 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/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 623 42f2edc38e5e563013f08deb401daed2
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 40004 7c68b982f9c7e45504411805d622d4e1
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 307934 8e2687227ac737f244994e19ca3ba575

Architecture independent components:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mailreader/mailreader_2.3.29-5woody2_all.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 352696 32dfa7f100f7716b0b47b85b60c5c3d8


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/

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