Debian Security Advisory
DSA-834-1 prozilla -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 01 Oct 2005
- Affected Packages:
- prozilla
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2961.
- More information:
-
Tavis Ormandy discovered a buffer overflow in prozilla, a multi-threaded download accelerator, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.6-3woody3.
The stable distribution (sarge) does not contain prozilla packages.
The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain prozilla packages.
We recommend that you upgrade your prozilla package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.