Debian Security Advisory
DSA-685-1 emacs21 -- format string
- Date Reported:
- 17 Feb 2005
- Affected Packages:
- emacs21
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0100.
- More information:
-
Max Vozeler discovered several format string vulnerabilities in the movemail utility of Emacs, the well-known editor. Via connecting to a malicious POP server an attacker can execute arbitrary code under the privileges of group mail.
For the stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in version 21.2-1woody3.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 21.3+1-9.
We recommend that you upgrade your emacs packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3.diff.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21-el_21.2-1woody3_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/emacs21/emacs21_21.2-1woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.