Debian Security Advisory
DSA-2102-1 barnowl -- unchecked return value
- Date Reported:
- 03 Sep 2010
- Affected Packages:
- barnowl
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 593299.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2010-2725. - More information:
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It has been discovered that in barnowl, a curses-based instant-messaging client, the return codes of calls to the ZPending and ZReceiveNotice functions in libzephyr were not checked, allowing attackers to cause a denial of service (crash of the application), and possibly execute arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-4+lenny2.
For the testing distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6.2-1.
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+lenny2.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2.dsc
- Architecture-independent component:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl-irc_1.0.1-4+lenny2_all.deb
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_arm.deb
- ARM EABI:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_armel.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/barnowl/barnowl_1.0.1-4+lenny2_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.