Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1664-1 ekg -- missing input sanitising

Date Reported:

10 Nov 2008

Affected Packages:

ekg

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-4776.

More information:

It was discovered that ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client performs insufficient input sanitising in the code to parse contact descriptions, which may result in denial of service.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.7~rc2-1etch2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) and the upcoming stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1:1.8~rc1-2 of libgadu.

We recommend that you upgrade your ekg package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2.diff.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2.orig.tar.gz; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2.dsc
Alpha:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_alpha.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_alpha.deb
AMD64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_amd64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_amd64.deb
ARM:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_arm.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_arm.deb
HP Precision:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_hppa.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_hppa.deb
Intel IA-32:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_i386.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_ia64.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_ia64.deb
Big-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_mips.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_mips.deb
Little-endian MIPS:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_mipsel.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_powerpc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_s390.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:: http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/ekg_1.7~rc2-1etch2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu3_1.7~rc2-1etch2_sparc.deb; http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/e/ekg/libgadu-dev_1.7~rc2-1etch2_sparc.deb

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