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List:       bugtraq
Subject:    Multiple vulnerabilities in libgadu and ekg package
From:       Wojtek Kaniewski <wojtekka () toxygen ! net>
Date:       2005-07-21 18:58:55
Message-ID: 42DFF06F.7060005 () toxygen ! net
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in libgadu, a library for 
handling Gadu-Gadu instant messaging protocol. It is a part of ekg, a 
Gadu-Gadu client, but is widely used in other clients. Also some of the 
user contributed scripts were found to behave in an insecure manner.

Bugs fixed in ekg-1.6rc3:

- integer overflow in libgadu (CAN-2005-1852) that could be triggered by
   an incomming message and lead to application crash and/or remote code
   execution (discovered by Marcin ¦lusarz),

Bugs fixed in ekg-1.6rc2:

- insecure file creation in user contributed Python script
   (CAN-2005-1916, discovered by Eric Romang of ZATAZ audit),

- insecure file creation (CAN-2005-1850) and shell command injection
   (CAN-2005-1851) in other user contributed scripts (discovered by
   Marcin Owsiany and Wojtek Kaniewski),

- several signedness errors in libgadu that could be triggered by an
   incomming network data or an application passing invalid user input to
   the library (discovered by Grzegorz Ja¶kiewicz),

- memory alignment errors in libgadu that could be triggered by an
   incomming message and lead to bus errors on architectures like SPARC
   (discovered by Szymon Zygmunt and Michał Bartoszkiewicz),

- endianness errors in libgadu that could cause invalid behaviour of
   applications on big-endian architectures (discovered by Marcin
   ¦lusarz).

Update is *strongly* recommended. The current version of ekg (including 
fixed libgadu) can be downloaded from:

   http://dev.null.pl/ekg/ekg-1.6rc3.tar.gz

Note that due to frequent protocol modifications that require API and 
ABI changes, several Gadu-Gadu clients include libgadu in their source 
trees and use it as a static library. If you use Gadu-Gadu client based 
on libgadu other than ekg, please consult your vendor whether an update 
is necessary.

Regards,
Wojtek Kaniewski
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