Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1023-1 kaffeine -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Apr 2006
- Affected Packages:
- kaffeine
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Bugtraq database (at SecurityFocus): BugTraq ID 17372.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2006-0051. - More information:
-
Marcus Meissner discovered that kaffeine, a versatile media player for KDE 3, contains an unchecked buffer that can be overwritten remotely when fetching remote RAM playlists which can cause the execution of arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not contain kaffeine packages.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your kaffeine package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kaffeine/kaffeine_0.6-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.