Debian Security Advisory

DSA-211-1 micq -- denial of service

Date Reported:
13 Dec 2002
Affected Packages:
micq
Vulnerable:
Yes
Security database references:
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2002-1362.
More information:

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 separator 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 unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 0.4.9.4-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your micq package.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_i386.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_m68k.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_powerpc.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.3-4.1_sparc.deb

Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)

Source:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3.dsc
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3.diff.gz
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9.orig.tar.gz
Alpha:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_alpha.deb
ARM:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_arm.deb
Intel IA-32:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_i386.deb
Intel IA-64:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_ia64.deb
HPPA:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_hppa.deb
Motorola 680x0:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_m68k.deb
Big endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_mips.deb
Little endian MIPS:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_mipsel.deb
PowerPC:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_powerpc.deb
IBM S/390:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_s390.deb
Sun Sparc:
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/micq/micq_0.4.9-0woody3_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.