Eric Romang discovered insecure temporary file creation and arbitrary
command execution in a contributed script that can be exploited by a local
attacker.
CVE-2005-1851
Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered potential shell command
injection in a contributed script.
CVE-2005-1850
Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski discovered insecure temporary file
creation in contributed scripts.
CVE-2005-1852
Multiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in ekg, allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute
arbitrary code via an incoming message.
CVE-2005-2448
Multiple endianness errors in libgadu in ekg allow remote attackers to
cause a denial of service (invalid behaviour in applications) on
big-endian systems.
For the testing distribution (etch) this is fixed in version 1:1.5+20050808+1.6rc3-0etch1
For the unstable distribution (sid) this is fixed in version 1:1.5+20050808+1.6rc3-1
This upgrade is recommended if you use ekg.
If you have the secure testing lines in your sources.list, you can update by running this command as root:
apt-get update && apt-get install libgadu3 ekg
The Debian testing security team does not track security issues for then stable (sarge) and oldstable (woody) distributions. If stable is vulnerable, the Debian security team will make an announcement once a fix is ready.
To use the Debian testing security archive, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-secure-testing etch/security-updates main contrib non-free
