Ubuntu Security Notice USN-409-1
15th January, 2007
kdenetwork vulnerability
A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:
- Ubuntu 6.10
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
- Ubuntu 5.10
Details
Federico L. Bossi Bonin discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability
in ksirc. By sending a special response packet, a malicious IRC server
could crash ksirc.
Update instructions
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:
- Ubuntu 6.10:
- ksirc 4:3.5.5-0ubuntu1.1
- Ubuntu 6.06 LTS:
- ksirc 4:3.5.2-0ubuntu6.3
- Ubuntu 5.10:
- ksirc 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu1.1
To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.
In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the
necessary changes.