Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2065-1 kvirc -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 27 Jun 2010
- Affected Packages:
- kvirc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-2451, CVE-2010-2452.
- More information:
-
Two security issues have been discovered in the DCC protocol support code of kvirc, a KDE-based next generation IRC client, which allow the overwriting of local files through directory traversal and the execution of arbitrary code through a format string attack.
For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 3.4.0-5.
For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in version 4.0.0~svn4340+rc3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your kvirc packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 (lenny)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0.orig.tar.gz
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-data_3.4.0-5_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_armel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc-dev_3.4.0-5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kvirc/kvirc_3.4.0-5_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.