DSA-834-1 prozilla -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-834-1 prozilla -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

01 Oct 2005

Affected Packages:

prozilla

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2961.

More information:

Tavis Ormandy discovered a buffer overflow in prozilla, a multi-threaded download accelerator, which may be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.6-3woody3.

The stable distribution (sarge) does not contain prozilla packages.

The unstable distribution (sid) does not contain prozilla packages.

We recommend that you upgrade your prozilla package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_alpha.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_arm.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_ia64.deb

HPPA:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_hppa.deb

Motorola 680x0:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_m68k.deb

Big endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_mips.deb

Little endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/prozilla/prozilla_1.3.6-3woody3_sparc.deb

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