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Fedora 8: FEDORA-2009-8456 Critical: Bitlbee Account Hijack Fix

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Calendar Grey September 10, 2008
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Essential release for Bitlbee 1.2.2 focusing on resolving account theft vulnerabilities and enhancing reliability for Fedora 8 users.
Upstream released Bitlbee 1.2.2 with the following changes to the former release: - Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts (without gaining access to the old accou...

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 ICQ, MSN, Jabber or Yahoo!

Update Information:

Upstream released Bitlbee 1.2.2 with the following changes to the former release: - Security bugfix: It was possible to hijack accounts (without gaining access to the old account, it's simply an overwrite) - Some more stability improvements. - Fixed bug where people with non-lowercase nicks couldn't drop their account. - Easier upgrades of non-forking daemon mode servers (using the DEAF command). - Can be cross-compiled for Win32 now! (No support for SSL yet though, which makes it less useful for now.) - Exponential backoff on auto-reconnect. - Changing passwords gives less confusing feedback ("password is empty") now. Finished 26 Aug 2008

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora account hijack Bitlbee

Change Log

* Wed Aug 27 2008 Robert Scheck 1.2.2-1 - Upgrade to 1.2.2 (#460355) * Mon Jul 7 2008 Robert Scheck 1.2.1-1 - Upgrade to 1.2.1 (thanks to Matěj Cepl) * Tue Apr 15 2008 Robert Scheck 1.2-1 - Upgrade to 1.2 (#439047, thanks to Matěj Cepl) * Sun Feb 10 2008 Robert Scheck 1.0.4-2 - Rebuilt against gcc 4.3

References


[ 1 ] Bug #460355 - Bitlbee 1.2.2 was released, update required https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460355

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update bitlbee' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: bitlbee
Product: Fedora 8
Version: 1.2.2
Release: 1.fc8
URL: https://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html
Summary: IRC to other chat networks gateway

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Topics Covered

security advisory software update Fedora account hijack Bitlbee

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