Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 23:13:09 +0200 (MEST)
From: Marc Heuse marc@suse.de
Subject: [suse-security-announce] SuSE Security Announcement –
ircii
SuSE Security Announcement
Package: ircii < 4.4M
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 11:04:19 GMT
Affected SuSE versions: all
Vulnerability Type: remote user compromise
SuSE default package: no
Other affected systems: all unix systems using ircii < 4.4M
A security hole was discovered in the package mentioned above.
Please update as soon as possible or disable the service if you are
using this software on your SuSE Linux installation(s).
Other Linux distributions or operating systems might be affected
as well, please contact your vendor for information about this
issue.
Please note that we provide this information on an “as-is” basis
only. There is no warranty whatsoever and no liability for any
direct, indirect or incidental damage arising from this information
or the installation of the update package.
1. Problem Description
The package ircii is an irc client which is used to connect to
irc servers and chat with other users.
A buffer overflow in the dcc chat feature was found which is
exploitable by remote users.
2. Impact
Remote users may execute commands as the user running ircii.
3. Solution
Update the package from our FTP server.
Please verify these md5 checksums of the updates before installing:
(For SuSE 6.0, please use the 6.1 updates)
0d928f56148aaa86c0015bbce49d3561 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/ircii-4.4M-0.alpha.rpm
e06dfc1254128cb1683e0487f168bf76 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.1/n1/irciihlp-4.4M-0.alpha.rpm
56e00c8e2260b2949ce0536035af479f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/ircii-4.4M-0.i386.rpm
29d123a6ac148827c3b2de2a552f4fa8 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.1/n1/irciihlp-4.4M-0.i386.rpm
10411aceecd18fc7ff7e6e5445e705ec ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/ircii-4.4M-0.i386.rpm
e8d430af732bd22f8e460f1ff9f45a77 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.2/n1/irciihlp-4.4M-0.i386.rpm
773184cd39e5bffd72f8432a5efdd24f ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/ircii-4.4M-0.i386.rpm
32738de26730d7442fa1adf992bf37fc ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.3/n1/ircii-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
49373ad8be6b9ef1c1c4a1c21481a639 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update/6.3/n1/irciihlp-4.4M-1.alpha.rpm
80505bfa6f08330f5a129d59ae58b51a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/n1/ircii-4.4M-0.ppc.rpm
4a72afe3f807cf1da2c8859c2a3fb743 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/ppc/update/6.3/n1/irciihlp-4.4M-0.ppc.rpm
6c2c3e7773760a9da2d2fa67b07f564a ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/6.4/n1/irciihlp-4.4M-1.i386.rpm
You can find updates on our ftp-Server:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update
for Intel processors
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/axp/update
for Alpha processors
or try the following web pages for a list of mirrors:
http://www.suse.de/ftp.html
http://www.suse.com/ftp_new.html
Our webpage for patches:
http://www.suse.de/patches/index.html
Our webpage for security announcements:
http://www.suse.de/security
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