Fedora 25: Remote DoS Fix for BitlBee Security Update Released
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February 9, 2017
BitlBee 3.5.1 (30 Jan 2017) file transfer requests from unknown contacts
Summary
Bitlbee is an IRC to other chat networks gateway. Bitlbee can be used as
an IRC server which forwards everything you say to people on other chat
networks like XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk and Hipchat), MSN/Skype,
AIM and ICQ, the Twitter microblogging network (and all other Twitter API
compatible services like status.net).
Update Information:
BitlBee 3.5.1 (30 Jan 2017) =========================== - purple: Fix crash on
file transfer requests from unknown contacts. This was the result of an
incomplete fix in the previous release and may result in remote DoS. Read the
full security advisory at: - After some
investigation we decided to reclassify a crash fix from the previous release as
a security issue. Read the full security advisory at:
- Included help.txt in the release tarball,
which was missing in the previous release and resulted in adding python as a
build dependency. The release tarball of 3.5.1 does not require python.
Topics Covered
Change Log
References
Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2017-deb82f0c0d 2017-02-09 01:14:52.524055
Name : bitlbee Product : Fedora 25 Version : 3.5.1 Release : 1.fc25 URL : https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html Summary : IRC to other chat networks gateway Description : Bitlbee is an IRC to other chat networks gateway. Bitlbee can be used as an IRC server which forwards everything you say to people on other chat networks like XMPP/Jabber (including Google Talk and Hipchat), MSN/Skype, AIM and ICQ, the Twitter microblogging network (and all other Twitter API compatible services like status.net).
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade bitlbee' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html
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Name: bitlbee
Product: Fedora 25
Version: 3.5.1
Release: 1.fc25
Summary: IRC to other chat networks gateway
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