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Debian Security Advisory DSA 148-1 (hylafax)

Information

Severity

Severity

High

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

7.2

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

16 years ago

Modified

Modified

6 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update to hylafax announced via advisory DSA 148-1.

Insight

Insight

A set of problems have been discovered in Hylafax, a flexible client/server fax software distributed with many GNU/Linux distributions. Quoting SecurityFocus the problems are in detail: * A format string vulnerability makes it possible for users to potentially execute arbitrary code on some implementations. Due to insufficient checking of input, it's possible to execute a format string attack. Since this only affects systems with the faxrm and faxalter programs installed setuid, Debian is not vulnerable. * A buffer overflow has been reported in Hylafax. A malicious fax transmission may include a long scan line that will overflow a memory buffer, corrupting adjacent memory. An exploid may result in a denial of service condition, or possibly the execution of arbitrary code with root privileges. * A format string vulnerability has been discovered in faxgetty. Incoming fax messages include a Transmitting Subscriber Identification (TSI) string, used to identify the sending fax machine. Hylafax uses this data as part of a format string without properly sanitizing the input. Malicious fax data may cause the server to crash, resulting in a denial of service condition. * Marcin Dawcewicz discovered a format string vulnerability in hfaxd, which will crash hfaxd under certain circumstances. Since Debian doesn't have hfaxd installed setuid root, this problem can not directly lead into a vulnerability. This has been fixed by Darren Nickerson, which was already present in newer versions, but not in the potato version. These problems have been fixed in version 4.0.2-14.3 for the old stable distribution (potato), in version 4.1.1-1.1 for the current stable distribution (woody) and in version 4.1.2-2.1 for the unstable distribution (sid). We recommend that you upgrade your hylafax packages.

Solution

Solution

https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%20148-1

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