Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1705-1 netatalk -- missing input sanitising
- Date Reported:
- 15 Jan 2009
- Affected Packages:
- netatalk
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 510585.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-5718. - More information:
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It was discovered that netatalk, an implementation of the AppleTalk suite, is affected by a command injection vulnerability when processing PostScript streams via papd. This could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. Please note that this only affects installations that are configured to use a pipe command in combination with wildcard symbols substituted with values of the printed job.
For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.3-4+etch1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (lenny) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.3-11+lenny1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.4~beta2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your netatalk package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3.orig.tar.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/n/netatalk/netatalk_2.0.3-4+etch1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
