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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2001.171 -- FreeBSD-SA-01:35.licq licq contains multiple remote vulnerabilities 26 April 2001 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: licq Vendor: FreeBSD Ports Collection Operating System: FreeBSD Platform: i386 Alpha Impact: Execute Arbitrary Code/Commands Denial of Service Access Required: Remote - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-01:35 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: licq contains multiple remote vulnerabilities Category: ports Module: licq Announced: 2001-04-23 Credits: Stan Bubrouski <stan@ccs.neu.edu> Affects: Ports collection prior to the correction date. Corrected: 2001-03-13 Vendor status: Updated version released FreeBSD only: NO I. Background licq is an ICQ client. II. Problem Description The licq port, versions prior to 1.0.3, contains a vulnerability in URL parsing. URLs received by the licq program are passed to the web browser using the system() function. Since licq performs no sanity checking, a remote attacker may be able to pipe commands contained in the URL causing the client to execute arbitrary commands. Additionally, the licq program also contains a buffer overflow in the logging functions allowing a remote attacker to cause licq to crash and potentially execute arbitbrary code on the local machine as the user running licq. The licq port is not installed by default, nor is it "part of FreeBSD" as such: it is part of the FreeBSD ports collection, which contains over 5000 third-party applications in a ready-to-install format. The ports collections shipped with FreeBSD 3.5.1 and 4.2 contain this problem since it was discovered after the releases. The ports collection that shipped with FreeBSD 4.3 is not vulnerable since this problem was corrected prior to the release. FreeBSD makes no claim about the security of these third-party applications, although an effort is underway to provide a security audit of the most security-critical ports. III. Impact Remote attackers may be able to crash licq or execute arbitrary commands on the local machine as the user running the licq program. If you have not chosen to install the licq port/package, then your system is not vulnerable to this problem. IV. Workaround Deinstall the licq port/package if you have installed it. V. Solution One of the following: 1) Upgrade your entire ports collection and rebuild the licq port. 2) Deinstall the old package and install a new package dated after the correction date, obtained from: [i386] ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/net/licq-1.0.3.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/net/licq-1.0.3.tgz [alpha] Packages are not automatically generated for the alpha architecture at this time due to lack of build resources. 3) download a new port skeleton for the licq port from: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ and use it to rebuild the port. 4) Use the portcheckout utility to automate option (3) above. The portcheckout port is available in /usr/ports/devel/portcheckout or the package can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-4-stable/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-5-current/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: FreeBSD: The Power To Serve iQCVAwUBOuTqtFUuHi5z0oilAQGRMAQAkun9z8bA3ZGNHt0MjYrFdjFCg8EWZ4H6 3e7pQxTXJktJkI6NgNVqycjezo4PMrTI5BOm8wMjnCpElI0sapZdf5mso65iJd8D WOrQYGsPA4//1tjv7P/VAtc61k53kr0HzwvZbczwbhiQqkEKFxxN4kyRuF4f9eQ1 dFkYSVA+kVg= =J8Cm - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - --------------------------END INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- This security bulletin is provided as a service to AusCERT's members. 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