gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-201209-09.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201209-09">
  <title>Atheme IRC Services: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Atheme which may lead to Denial
    of Service or a bypass of security restrictions.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">atheme</product>
  <announced>2012-09-25</announced>
  <revised count="1">2012-09-25</revised>
  <bug>409103</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/atheme-services" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">6.0.10</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">6.0.10</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Atheme is a portable and secure set of open-source and modular IRC
      services. CertFP is certificate fingerprinting used to authenticate users
      to nicknames.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>The “myuser_delete()” function in account.c does not properly remove
      CertFP entries when deleting user accounts.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote authenticated attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service
      condition or gain access to an Atheme IRC Services user account.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Atheme users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/atheme-services-6.0.10"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-1576">CVE-2012-1576</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2012-08-14T16:09:52Z">
    keytoaster
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2012-09-25T10:53:52Z">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>