Gentoo: GLSA-200807-12 Normal: BitchX Multiple Execution Risks
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July 22, 2008
Multiple vulnerabilities in BitchX may allow for the remote execution of arbitrary code or symlink attacks.
Summary
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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200807-12
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: BitchX: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: July 21, 2008
Bugs: #190667
ID: 200807-12
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities in BitchX may allow for the remote execution
of arbitrary code or symlink attacks.
Background
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BitchX is an IRC client.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-irc/bitchx <= 1.1-r4 Vulnerable!
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NOTE: Certain packages are still vulnerable. Users should migrate
to another package if one is available or wait for the
existing packages to be marked stable by their
architecture maintainers.
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bannedit reported a boundary error when handling overly long IRC MODE
messages (CVE-2007-4584). Nico Golde reported an insecure creation of a
temporary file within the e_hostname() function (CVE-2007-5839).
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