Debian Security Advisory

DSA-720-1 smartlist -- wrong input processing

Date Reported:
03 May 2005
Affected Packages:
smartlist
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-0157.
More information:

Jeroen van Wolffelaar noticed that the confirm add-on of SmartList, the listmanager used on lists.debian.org, which is used on that host as well, could be tricked to subscribe arbitrary addresses to the lists.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 3.15-5.woody.1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 3.15-18.

We recommend that you upgrade your smartlist package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/s/smartlist/smartlist_3.15-5.woody.1_sparc.deb

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