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ESB-2002.704 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 211-1 -- New mICQ packages fix denial of service
Date: 16 December 2002

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             AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution

            ESB-2002.704 -- Debian Security Advisory DSA 211-1
                  New mICQ packages fix denial of service
                             16 December 2002

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        AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary
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Product:                micq
Vendor:                 Debian
Operating System:       Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
                        Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
                        Linux
                        UNIX
Impact:                 Denial of Service
Access Required:        Remote

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 211-1                     security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Martin Schulze
December 13th, 2002                     http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : micq
Vulnerability  : denial of service
Problem-Type   : remote
Debian-specific: no

Rüdiger Kuhlmann, upstream developer of mICQ, a text based ICQ client,
discovered a problem in mICQ.  Receiving certain ICQ message types
that do not contain the required 0xFE seperator causes all versions to
crash.

For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.4.9-0woody3.

For the old stable distribution (potato) this problem has been fixed
in version 0.4.3-4.1.

For the current unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been
fixed in version 0.4.9.1-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your micq package.

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 2.2 alias potato
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      518 f0f0475b6485a2ea29d11f122e48c56f
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     3700 66f4327ddf4f1e5985b79f5a941269ba
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   100430 ddc011d3509d593284bf9336e0a9f829

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   110916 f6d7fae1df9522eac47d8d294c98544e

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    45934 ec658e43960c448350e7790cef2a9551

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    42682 1ed0c823d4ccc05bc9e2070c15a687be

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    38426 5ed0e53eb1076a8e842f9e97f9b12f03

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    59664 bb34cef3e0160a1d348a411cdf992185

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:    60374 77ff9ef07e621f35bff70a08fb738e6b


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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  Source archives:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3.dsc
      Size/MD5 checksum:      568 a17ef67f61fa309172c1d4736b43cbb1
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3.diff.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:     3474 ca9382767417889409ce844e1b246e32
    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9.orig.tar.gz
      Size/MD5 checksum:   419381 16a71fce3abba8d9f731fe7bd761b4b8

  Alpha architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_alpha.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   324512 80015dffaa7e80871568ef89356da8f1

  ARM architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_arm.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   295992 e03eba7bcff456cbc59c60b56424363f

  Intel IA-32 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_i386.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   289546 017ff4e61aa4a5041b2a5d55de3b1d2d

  Intel IA-64 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_ia64.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   342760 53729a3a8c7c3531e88524291b510765

  HP Precision architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_hppa.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   306116 769de74fac901a4e0de33b2522c50df6

  Motorola 680x0 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_m68k.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   281462 6ea6464fd8a0829a803736c6eb00aab1

  Big endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_mips.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   299342 569fd2cb03a89770f1922645aba043e5

  Little endian MIPS architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_mipsel.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   299074 3a4103196d6b55accea6b87a4fa8cfd0

  PowerPC architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_powerpc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   293460 17973866bb09bf293834e180c9ca43b6

  IBM S/390 architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_s390.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   290830 bf88418e50e0aab6ea8388597f1cd287

  Sun Sparc architecture:

    http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_sparc.deb
      Size/MD5 checksum:   295562 3c6defaa7748b4a43fee112e347e5195



  These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on
  its next revision.

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For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security dists/stable/updates/main
Mailing list: debian-security-announce@lists.debian.org
Package info: `apt-cache show <pkg>' and http://packages.debian.org/<pkg>

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