Debian 2.2 DSA-012-1 Critical: Micq Remote Code Execution Threat

PkC has reported that there is a buffer overflow in sprintf() in micq
versions 0.4.6, that allows to a remote attacker able to sniff packets
to the ICQ server to execute arbitrary code on the victim system.

We recommend you upgrade your micq package immediately.

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

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


Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
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Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and sparc
architectures.

Source archives:



MD5 checksum: b564dd2d8e937611bd90d73096d4a138


MD5 checksum: ddc011d3509d593284bf9336e0a9f829


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Intel ia32 architecture:



MD5 checksum: b5a2d7327ffc35ab49a1e4f64c6f2567

Motorola 680x0 architecture:



MD5 checksum: a07906bae588eaec0b20974a8a871704

Sun Sparc architecture:

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