Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1052-1 cgiirc -- buffer overflows

Date Reported:
08 May 2006
Affected Packages:
cgiirc
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 365680.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-2148.
More information:

Several buffer overflows have been discovered in cgiirc, a web-based IRC client, which could be exploited to execute arbitrary code.

The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain cgiirc packages.

For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.4-6sarge1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 0.5.4-6sarge1.

We recommend that you upgrade your cgiirc package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_alpha.deb
AMD64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_amd64.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/c/cgiirc/cgiirc_0.5.4-6sarge1_sparc.deb

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