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:

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
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.