Debian 5.0 Lenny DSA-2065-1 Critical: Kvirc Remote Code Execution

Two security issues have been discovered in the DCC protocol support
code of kvirc, a KDE-based next generation IRC client, which allow
the overwriting of local files through directory traversal and the
execution of arbitrary code through a format string attack.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.4.0-5.

For the unstable distribution (sid), these problems have been fixed in
version 4.0.0~svn4340+rc3-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your kvirc 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

Stable updates are available for...