New bidwatcher packages are available for Debian GNU/Linux

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Debian Security Advisory DSA 687-1 security@debian.org
http://www.debian.org/security/ Martin Schulze
February 18th, 2005 http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : bidwatcher
Vulnerability : format string
Problem-Type : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID : CAN-2005-0158

Ulf Härnhammar from the Debian Security Audit Project discovered a format string vulnerability in bidwatcher, a tool for watching and bidding on eBay auctions. This problem can be triggered remotely by a web server of eBay, or someone pretending to be eBay, sending certain data back. As of version 1.3.17 the program uses cURL and is not vulnerable anymore.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.3.3-1woody1.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your bidwatcher package.



Upgrade Instructions
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wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.

If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for sources.list as given below:

apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages

You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the footer to the proper configuration.


Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 alias woody
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Source archives:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1.dsc
Size/MD5 checksum: 637 2a65bc6cbed81466721793318948aed4
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1.diff.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 3368 b36c63ae2e6a5c42bb13c506f980e1ba
http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3.orig.tar.gz
Size/MD5 checksum: 136679 2094c233fa21c80f65d5dce1bf4fb133

Alpha architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_alpha.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 95574 dc1f1c5581af8526fe916ea0246fec8e

ARM architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_arm.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 85060 6dff37d2dbb68c869553b4008b47f7df

Intel IA-32 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_i386.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 82152 49d709d2f5a81dcfd8b462d60af5218b

Intel IA-64 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_ia64.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 103978 874237be875f51817240c7ce79a96732

HP Precision architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_hppa.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 109292 b164a9dc42b40a2eda85896dfec8d310

Motorola 680x0 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_m68k.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 79942 7d101eb867927c88d5ec2fd127494497

Big endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_mips.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 81562 f0f65a2f84feef4dc4afa5cb82126350

Little endian MIPS architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_mipsel.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 80606 1e2786878f126a90e26c6894d44f7d35

PowerPC architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_powerpc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 81478 19128bd956597ed8ed7c6780b09ee15d

IBM S/390 architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_s390.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 80902 d4d892f6ffb796106bdcb09c8ed3181a

Sun Sparc architecture:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bidwatcher/bidwatcher_1.3.3-1woody1_sparc.deb
Size/MD5 checksum: 80802 d5882fbca7b6a7b2205a1fb8b5c76112


These files will probably be moved into the stable distribution on its next update.