gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200411-24.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200411-24">
  <title>BNC: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    BNC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may lead to Denial of
    Service and execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">BNC</product>
  <announced>November 16, 2004</announced>
  <revised>November 16, 2004: 01</revised>
  <bug>70674</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/bnc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2.9.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2.9.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    BNC (BouNCe) is an IRC proxy server.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Leon Juranic discovered that BNC fails to do proper bounds
    checking when checking server response.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service and
    potentially execute arbitary code with the permissions of the user
    running BNC.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All BNC users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/bnc-2.9.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://gotbnc.com/changes.html">BNC ChangeLog</uri>
    <uri link="http://security.lss.hr/en/index.php?page=details&amp;ID=LSS-2004-11-03">LSS-2004-11-03</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 11 Nov 2004 20:17:39 +0000">
    lewk
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:49:41 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Fri, 12 Nov 2004 23:44:26 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
</glsa>