DSA-2065-1 kvirc -- several vulnerabilities

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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