Debian DSA-3853-1 Critical: Bitlbee DoS and Command Execution Risk
debian
May 15, 2017
It was discovered that bitlbee, an IRC to other chat networks gateway, contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (via application crash), or pote...
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Summary
For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.2.2-2+deb8u1.
For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions,
these problems have been fixed in version 3.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bitlbee 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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Package: bitlbee
CVE ID: CVE-2016-10188 CVE-2016-10189
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