Debian: DSA 400-1 Urgent: Mega5 Heap Corruption Service Disruption

Jeremy Nelson discovered a remotely exploitable buffer overflow in
EPIC4, a popular client for Internet Relay Chat (IRC). A malicious
server could craft a reply which triggers the client to allocate a
negative amount of memory. This could lead to a denial of service if
the client only crashes, but may also lead to executing of arbitrary
code under the user id of the chatting user.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.2.20020219-2.2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 1.1.11.20030409-2.

We recommend that you upgrade your epic4 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 ...