Debian alert DSA-2102-1 (barnowl)
| From: | Sebastien Delafond <seb@debian.org> | |
| To: | debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org | |
| Subject: | [SECURITY] [DSA-2102-1] New barnowl packages fix arbitrary code execution | |
| Date: | Fri, 3 Sep 2010 12:13:50 +0200 | |
| Message-ID: | <20100903101350.GP9689@frisco.mine.nu> | |
| Archive‑link: | Article |
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Security Advisory DSA-2102-1 security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Sébastien Delafond Sep 3, 2010 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : barnowl Vulnerability : unchecked return value Problem type : remote Debian-specific: no CVE Id : CVE-2010-2725 Debian Bug : 593299 It has been discovered that in barnowl, a curses-based instant-messaging client, the return codes of calls to the ZPending and ZReceiveNotice functions in libzephyr were not checked, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash of the application), and possibly execute arbitrary code. For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-4+lenny2. For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your barnowl packages. 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 5.0 alias lenny - -------------------------------- Debian (stable) - --------------- Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc. Source archives: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 606923 5036fe3559becc5fa81de9a4dc028767 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 1131 2cf38ea3565cbc819c2599045d41e594 http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 17407 6eef7b2e31097c85d1fce993e9d08f27 Architecture independent packages: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 39502 7dd6dd51b6f8fbb189e174390973d0e0 alpha architecture (DEC Alpha) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 521794 5e8b418204f0ea86cf2d44333c3df11f amd64 architecture (AMD x86_64 (AMD64)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 498014 191fb4aa4ab528baf40b59f18d7eb36c arm architecture (ARM) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 453436 42b05b0c60b5c90129605c34daffcf11 armel architecture (ARM EABI) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 453674 ef893ba37cebe84bf3af1bed1e16b1af hppa architecture (HP PA RISC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 485238 f482a5079043bb2955751b535f60c1c5 i386 architecture (Intel ia32) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 468532 e70847f4b14dde80a4afcbf095f738bf ia64 architecture (Intel ia64) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 580308 44a07fa48b54dca15fed0c158129c3a8 mips architecture (MIPS (Big Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 461644 69976cc4a85f19bf4efe074800833baa mipsel architecture (MIPS (Little Endian)) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 460558 1a8aca0efbb4b986a15f202f7cc4c638 powerpc architecture (PowerPC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 485170 3389955dfaea0e8eadd03a944e6e9ab8 s390 architecture (IBM S/390) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 488548 4f49e79c9d4cb4d0af71f846521c21fa sparc architecture (Sun SPARC/UltraSPARC) http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/ba... Size/MD5 checksum: 463242 ed7a0bd6e9330b3cf534e8069cbce8c4 These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update. - --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkyAyl4ACgkQiZgNKcDdyD8wKQCfZEWtVjTlQN0+Uixh5S0tUUq2 uBgAoLc5jYPrdspKgRH8NbcvRaO1f7E0 =Asj4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-security-announce-REQUEST@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100903101350.GP9689@frisco.mine.nu