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TITLE:
BarnOwl Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA34042

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/34042/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in BarnOwl, which can be
exploited by malicious people to potentially compromise a vulnerable
system.

1) A boundary error exists within the "GetZephyrVarKeyFile()"
function in zcrypt.c. This may be exploited to caused a buffer
overflow via a specially crafted "zcrypt" message.

2) Multiple boundary errors exist within the
"owl_zwrite_send_ping()", "owl_zwrite_set_message()", and
"owl_zwrite_send_message()" functions in zwrite.c. This may be
exploited to caused a buffer overflow via e.g. a specially crafted
response to a "reply" command on messages with certain Zephyr CC:
lists.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.0.5.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://barnowl.mit.edu/wiki/barnowl-1.0.5-announce
http://barnowl.mit.edu/browser/ChangeLog

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