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Debian Sarge: DSA 1318-1 Critical: Ekg Denial Of Service Issues

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Calendar Grey June 29, 2007
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Several remote vulnerabilities have been discovered in ekg, a console Gadu Gadu client
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security advisory denial of service remote exploit Debian Sarge ekg package architecture issue

Summary


It was discovered that memory alignment errors may allow remote
attackers to cause a denial of service on certain architectures
such as sparc. This only affects Debian Sarge.

CVE-2005-2448

It was discovered that several endianess errors may allow remote
attackers to cause a denial of service. This only affects
Debian Sarge.

CVE-2007-1663

It was discovered that a memory leak in handling image messages may
lead to denial of service. This only affects Debian Etch.

CVE-2007-1664

It was discovered that a null pointer deference in the token OCR code
may lead to denial of service. This only affects Debian Etch.

CVE-2007-1665

It was discovered that a memory leak in the token OCR code may lead
to denial of service. This only affects Debian Etch.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.5+20050411-7. This updates lacks updated packages for the m68k
architecture. They will be provided later.

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security advisory denial of service remote exploit Debian Sarge ekg package architecture issue

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