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Debian: DSA-3226-1 Critical: Inspircd Buffer Overflow Risk

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Calendar Grey April 15, 2015
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The recent Debian security advisory regarding Inspircd highlights important patches addressing severe vulnerabilities related to buffer overflows and potential denial of service attacks.
adam@anope.org discovered several problems in inspircd, an IRC daemon: - an incomplete patch for CVE-2012-1836 failed to adequately resolve the problem where maliciously crafted DN...

Summary

- an incomplete patch for CVE-2012-1836 failed to adequately resolve
the problem where maliciously crafted DNS requests could lead to
remote code execution through a heap-based buffer overflow.

- the incorrect processing of specific DNS packets could trigger an
infinite loop, thus resulting in a denial of service.

For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.0.5-1+deb7u1.

For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable
distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.16-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your inspircd packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/



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