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

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!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>