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Gentoo: GLSA-202203-12 High: BNC Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Calendar Grey November 16, 2004
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A severe stack overflow flaw in ABC may result in system instability and unauthorized code execution; please update immediately.
BNC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may lead to Denial of Service and execution of arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200411-24 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: BNC: Buffer overflow vulnerability Date: November 16, 2004 Bugs: #70674 ID: 200411-24

Synopsis ======= BNC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may lead to Denial of Service and execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= BNC (BouNCe) is an IRC proxy server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-irc/bnc < 2.9.1 >= 2.9.1
========== Leon Juranic discovered that BNC fails to do proper bounds checking when checking server response.
Impact ===== An attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service and potentially exe...

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