New emil packages for Debian GNU/Linux are available

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 468-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
March 24th, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : emil
Vulnerability : several
Problem-Type : local/remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0152 CAN-2004-0153

Ulf Harnhammar discovered a number of vulnerabilities in emil, a filter for converting Internet mail messages. The vulnerabilities fall into two categories:

- CAN-2004-0152 - Buffer overflows in (1) the encode_mime function, (2) the encode_uuencode function, (3) the decode_uuencode function. These bugs could allow a carefully crafted email message to cause the execution of arbitrary code supplied with the message when it is acted upon by emil.

- CAN-2004-0153 - Format string bugs in statements which print various error messages. The exploit potential of these bugs has not been established, and is probably configuration-dependent.

For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems will be fixed soon.



We recommend that you update your emil 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/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 602 1b5b16236b90e3b5c5dd1362e2a774db
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 12492 dcfdd2e61e53595b5e7547725deb90ab
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 214318 c9f6db6e90b5a6feb2d95cf71302aac8

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 139162 bef107a1a689d376da590dd63c85855d

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 123982 a9be874dc7313689fd3c4983a88274f5

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 120678 979224cbb3c7eedb244ff0c32c2fcf5a

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 159672 727994fa7ca7c1f29bda179aa6c4caf1

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 130684 d8ee92a6c252cf697d855272461601df

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 117510 946d04b64b429f4effdc8b4fa0333959

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 130778 56c11718bfbab733906e1625a9cb1612

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 130640 e295c6fbc486e1434e550481e6a4c312

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 127604 edd93d91f860b68ed5fb54feca725af2

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 122696 5e3cdae4d6e3a586ec76d5e72db2e747

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emil/emil_2.1.0-beta9-11woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 127246 d76935af3c31b1b7d8f3915d51c825c6

These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision.