Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1600-1 sympa -- dos

Date Reported:

01 Jul 2008

Affected Packages:

sympa

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 475163.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-1648.

More information:

It was discovered that sympa, a modern mailing list manager, would crash when processing certain types of malformed messages.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 5.2.3-1.2+etch1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 5.3.4-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your sympa package.

Fixed in:

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_mips.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/sympa/sympa_5.2.3-1.2+etch1_sparc.deb

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