Debian Security Advisory

DSA-738-1 razor -- remote denial of service

Date Reported:

05 Jul 2005

Affected Packages:

razor

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2024.

More information:

A vulnerability was discovered in the way that Razor parses certain email headers that could potentially be used to crash the Razor program, causing a denial of service.

For the stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 2.670-1sarge2.

The old stable distribution (woody) is not affected by this issue.

We recommend that you upgrade your razor package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2.dsc; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2.diff.gz
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_alpha.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_ia64.deb
Motorola 680x0:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_m68k.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/r/razor/razor_2.670-1sarge2_sparc.deb

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