Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2049-1 barnowl -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 23 May 2010
- Affected Packages:
- barnowl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 574418.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-0793. - More information:
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It has been discovered that barnowl, a curses-based tty Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr client, is prone to a buffer overflow via its "CC:" handling, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-4+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your barnowl packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl-irc_1.0.1-4+lenny1_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_mips.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.