Gentoo: GLSA-202203-12 High: BNC Buffer Overflow Exploit
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November 16, 2004
BNC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may lead to Denial of Service and execution of arbitrary code.
Summary
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
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BNC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may lead to Denial of
Service and execution of arbitrary code.
Background
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BNC (BouNCe) is an IRC proxy server.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-irc/bnc < 2.9.1 >= 2.9.1
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Leon Juranic discovered that BNC fails to do proper bounds checking
when checking server response.
Impact
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An attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service and
potentially exe...
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