Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 07:40:39 -0700
From: debian-security-announce@LISTS.DEBIAN.ORG
To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM
Subject: [SECURITY] New version of xchat released (update)
Debian Security Advisory security@debian.org http://www.debian.org/security/ Wichert Akkerman August 30, 2000
Package : xchat Problem type : remote exploit Debian-specific: no
The version of X-Chat that was distributed with Debian GNU/Linux
2.2 has a vulnerability in the URL handling code: when a user
clicks on a URL X-Chat will start netscape to view its target.
However it did not check the URL for shell metacharacters, and this
could be abused to trick xchat into executing arbitraty commands.
This has been fixed in version 1.4.3-0.1, and we recommend you
upgrade your xchat package(s) immediately.
Update: the powerpc packages mentioned in the first release of
this advisory were linked with a version of libgtk that is not
available in Debian GNU/Linux 2.2. They have been recompiled with
the correct version and reuploaded.
wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 alias potato
Potato was released for the alpha, arm, i386, m68k, powerpc and
sparc architectures.
Source archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xchat_1.4.3-0.1.diff.gz
MD5 checksum: 5cbdb48ac125bbbfb5be77dc4bfc8807
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xchat_1.4.3-0.1.dsc
MD5 checksum: 5270a711fea64ba2aa8c69aecd58b337
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/source/xchat_1.4.3.orig.tar.gz
MD5 checksum: 2c7c49888490bb3725b693c804ee28a1
Architecture indendent archives:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-all/xchat-common_1.4.3-0.1_all.deb
MD5 checksum: f4bee55efca7a60383db25b161752e25
Alpha architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xchat-gnome_1.4.3-0.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 3f71beeecce1500a18d642d03e37515e
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xchat-text_1.4.3-0.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 921b36d41254be307ad60c1bf00648c3
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-alpha/xchat_1.4.3-0.1_alpha.deb
MD5 checksum: 7523c9d010fa28a9f615bdde8c7b91d3
ARM architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xchat-gnome_1.4.3-0.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 4088d38fcde4d8a138f74641d115255c
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xchat-text_1.4.3-0.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 0e272f1b53b711bfe484014ba88c3fb7
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-arm/xchat_1.4.3-0.1_arm.deb
MD5 checksum: 4d754fedb2aa23a9ebbc0e2ec8843ad1
Intel ia32 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xchat-gnome_1.4.3-0.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 17619affa0c55c6d84d9410892e14621
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xchat-text_1.4.3-0.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 2cea1081ebf9d4fc2e12ff8b72414fb8
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-i386/xchat_1.4.3-0.1_i386.deb
MD5 checksum: 5d8b1a7789ca73b6b63b48ab79c10ebf
Motorola 680×0 architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xchat-gnome_1.4.3-0.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 016ad3766a6e9dee782b46e3f8e7a5d4
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xchat-text_1.4.3-0.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 7c4cfbc98b78f6ed2529db91d35cdaae
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-m68k/xchat_1.4.3-0.1_m68k.deb
MD5 checksum: 5e5289f266d935fbd0b6d6dce3cb1c7d
PowerPC architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xchat-gnome_1.4.3-0.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 2b0ad87fde7d7d51ae255c93af94cef5
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xchat-text_1.4.3-0.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: 72831b0ae0538048b1c67cba19f534d0
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-powerpc/xchat_1.4.3-0.1_powerpc.deb
MD5 checksum: d09aab5ec885854fe7f2e79833a3830c
Sun Sparc architecture:
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xchat-gnome_1.4.3-0.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 1e11fc5b34aecae873a3533628baa888
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xchat-text_1.4.3-0.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 7294d7cfa92a40ce80f0eb4c69a545f8
http://security.debian.org/dists/stable/updates/main/binary-sparc/xchat_1.4.3-0.1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksum: 8bc2c465ec59636cc2b94b515f7c22c5
These files will be moved into ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/*/binary-$arch/
soon.
For not yet released architectures please refer to the
appropriate directory ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/binary-$arch/
.
For apt-get: deb http://security.debian.org/
stable/updates main
For dpkg-ftp: ftp://security.debian.org/debian-security
dists/stable/updates/main
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