Debian Security Advisory

DSA-902-1 xmail -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

21 Nov 2005

Affected Packages:

xmail

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2943.

More information:

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the sendmail program of xmail, an advanced, fast and reliable ESMTP/POP3 mail server that could lead to the execution of arbitrary code with group mail privileges.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain xmail packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.21-3sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.22-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your xmail package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21.orig.tar.gz
Architecture-independent component:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail-doc_1.21-3sarge1_all.deb
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/x/xmail/xmail_1.21-3sarge1_sparc.deb

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