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Debian 5.0 Lenny DSA-2049-1 Moderate: Barnowl Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey May 23, 2010
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Debian Security Bulletin DSA-2049-1 highlights a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the barnowl client, which could allow for the execution of unauthorized code.
It has been discovered that barnowl, a curses-based tty Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr client, is prone to a buffer overflow via its "CC:" handling, which could lead to the execution ...

Summary


For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 1.0.1-4+lenny1.

For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution
(sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.1-1.


We recommend that you upgrade your barnowl packages.


Upgrade instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 alias lenny

Debian (stable)
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Stable updates are available for alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

Size/MD5 checksum: 606923 5036fe3559becc5fa81de9a4dc028767
Size/MD5 checksum: 112...

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