From debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Tue Nov 11 04:41:36 2003 From: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Resent-From: list@murphy.debian.org (SmartList) To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2003 15:10:04 +0100 (CET) Reply-To: full-disclosure@lists.netsys.com Subject: [Full-Disclosure] [SECURITY] [DSA 399-1] New epic4 packages fix denial of service -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA 399-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze November 10th, 2003 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : epic4 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CAN-2003-0328 Jeremy Nelson discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in EPIC4, a popular client for Internet Relay Chat (IRC). A malicious server could craft a reply which triggers the client to allocate a negative amount of memory. This could lead to a denial of service if the client only crashes, but may also lead to executing of arbitrary code under the user id of the chatting user. For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.2.20020219-2.2. For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.1.11.20030409-2. We recommend that you upgrade your epic4 package. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- wget url will fetch the file for you dpkg -i file.deb will install the referenced file. If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below: apt-get update will update the internal database apt-get upgrade will install corrected packages You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration. Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody - -------------------------------- Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2.dsc Size/MD5 checksum: 632 3bfdb704855cba1347f0d817a14ac811 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2.diff.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 13465 bc712024ef53fc4f1e50e1d0a8430720 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219.orig.tar.gz Size/MD5 checksum: 647989 2f5d39e7cc17fd83e455cbc442f45dd0 Alpha architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_alpha.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 451484 235857ceb58e9bd9e609e4e7afac8a07 ARM architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_arm.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 374938 8c227e918cc44976951b235d2da29355 Intel IA-32 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_i386.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 357100 9ef2ed5afc44e11b0c3d60c53e19991e Intel IA-64 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_ia64.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 541986 4d6c24d75acdcf326633afe0188f200d HP Precision architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_hppa.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 423238 17447b982271b8c233a004491f76f372 Motorola 680x0 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_m68k.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 337644 cdbc15cd7dea8abd7a407e93dded2a26 Big endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_mips.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 388442 53b524501e1671bd8912cf1607a50f74 Little endian MIPS architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_mipsel.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 389438 e8fa4bcebaab3ec6b6039d500535a1a3 PowerPC architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_powerpc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 384452 80bcac652557ddf726cf81b649a7c4f6 IBM S/390 architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_s390.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 370862 beb0dcb0d0fc71d6182cd12133bc58e8 Sun Sparc architecture: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_sparc.deb Size/MD5 checksum: 372884 c6db693e131441d8b6ff0147bf99625a These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next revision. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org Package info: `apt-cache show ' and http://packages.debian.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/r5w8W5ql+IAeqTIRAnvjAKCmI0p0+vKm0bFLzCjXPaTHwN9yDACfX9oj iwSNyuQU1ayMH/oxKqdmung= =6VCU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. 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