Gentoo: GLSA-200410-14 Moderate: XYZ Library Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
gentoo
October 15, 2004
BNC contains an input validation flaw which might allow a remote attacker to issue arbitrary IRC related commands.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200410-13
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: BNC: Input validation flaw
Date: October 15, 2004
Bugs: #66912
ID: 200410-13
Synopsis
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BNC contains an input validation flaw which might allow a remote
attacker to issue arbitrary IRC related commands.
Background
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BNC is an IRC proxying server
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-irc/bnc < 2.8.9 >= 2.8.9
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A flaw exists in the input parsing of BNC where part of the
sbuf_getmsg() function handles the backspace character incorrectly.
Impact
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A remote user could issue commands using fake authentication
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