Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities: CAN-2005-1850 Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered insecure temporary file creation in contributed scripts. CAN-2005-1851 Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered potential shell command injection in a contributed script. CAN-2005-1916 Eric Romang discovered insecure temporary file creation and arbitrary command execution in a contributed script that can be exploited by a local attacker. The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an ekg package. For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5+20050411-4. For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5+20050712+1.6rc2-1. We recommend that you upgrade your ekg package.
Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client, an instant messaging program. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following vulnerabilities:
Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered insecure temporary file creation in contributed scripts.
Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered potential shell command injection in a contributed script.
Eric Romang discovered insecure temporary file creation and arbitrary command execution in a contributed script that can be exploited by a local attacker.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain an ekg package.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5+20050411-4.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 1.5+20050712+1.6rc2-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your ekg package.
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.
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