Debian: DSA-2080-1 High: VLC Media Player Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

It was discovered that incorrect parsing of CTCP commands in kvirc, a
KDE-based IRC client, could lead to the execution of arbitrary IRC
commands against other users.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in
version 2:3.4.0-6.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 4:4.0.0-3.

We recommend that you upgrade your kvirc package.

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 alpha, amd64, arm, armel, hppa, i386, ia64, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390 and sparc.

Source archives:

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