Debian Security Advisory

DSA-078-1 slrn -- remote command invocation

Date Reported:

24 Sep 2001

Affected Packages:

slrn

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 3364.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2001-1035.

More information:

Byrial Jensen found a nasty problem in slrn (a threaded news reader). The notice on slrn-announce describes it as follows:

When trying to decode binaries, the built-in code executes any shell scripts the article might contain, apparently assuming they would be some kind of self-extracting archive.

This problem has been fixed in version 0.9.6.2-9potato2 by removing this feature.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/slrn_0.9.6.2.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_m68k.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_m68k.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrn_0.9.6.2-9potato2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/slrnpull_0.9.6.2-9potato2_sparc.deb

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