Debian Security Advisory

DSA-399-1 epic4 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:
10 Nov 2003
Affected Packages:
epic4
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 8999.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2003-0328.
More information:

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.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/epic4/epic4_1.1.2.20020219-2.2_sparc.deb

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