DSA 527-1: New pavuk packages fix buffer overflow

New pavuk packages has been released for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 527-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Matt Zimmerman
July 3rd, 2004 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : pavuk
Vulnerability : buffer overflow
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE Ids : CAN-2004-0456

Ulf Härnhammar discovered a vulnerability in pavuk, a file retrieval program, whereby an oversized HTTP 305 response sent by a malicious server could cause arbitrary code to be executed with the privileges of the pavuk process.

For the current stable distribution (woody), this problem has been fixed in version 0.9pl28-1woody1.

pavuk is no longer included in the unstable distribution of Debian.

We recommend that you update your pavuk 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/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 707 8c039288254bd756409cab54b6ca7cfc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 13610 c824a2921a9791a8d840447062643d0b
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 968336 d0f7b77bd11322add1f7d52d62afbf78

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 630654 9d0d364a20448a4113e07d0e40745d63

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 568730 8dcb6be6111bab1194bb70b668659a6a

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 562284 eb47253f87db9ade4748d5e2d01bd701

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 700588 0a76ba2d4d8aa4db408bf3546a7c4775

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 608290 5858310a6a9902a6d796c6bbcb527e83

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 540248 9b5e9a7d2a98f7aacb5dbefeb2ac5f81

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 565172 134a4284c713a2faca228ca0086fffd0

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 560950 ea00112b42beec9797c7cac4125541c7

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 577756 d6a276f698025c5d2851c0f2d256082f

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 556910 3a8f996cc7123dfb8d789ebcfa3b8026

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pavuk/pavuk_0.9pl28-1woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 573834 f0473eea31b3d870e54649431867c9c4

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