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
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.