It was discovered that bitlbee, an IRC to other chat networks gateway,
contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of
service (via application crash), or potentially execute arbitrary
commands.
# OpenVAS Vulnerability Test
# $Id: deb_3853.nasl 6607 2017-07-07 12:04:25Z cfischer $
# Auto-generated from advisory DSA 3853-1 using nvtgen 1.0
# Script version: 1.0
#
# Author:
# Greenbone Networks
#
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if(description)
{
script_id(703853);
script_version("$Revision: 6607 $");
script_cve_id("CVE-2016-10188", "CVE-2016-10189");
script_name("Debian Security Advisory DSA 3853-1 (bitlbee - security update)");
script_tag(name: "last_modification", value: "$Date: 2017-07-07 14:04:25 +0200 (Fri, 07 Jul 2017) $");
script_tag(name: "creation_date", value: "2017-05-15 00:00:00 +0200 (Mon, 15 May 2017)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"7.5");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_tag(name: "solution_type", value: "VendorFix");
script_tag(name: "qod_type", value: "package");
script_xref(name: "URL", value: "http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3853.html");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (c) 2017 Greenbone Networks GmbH http://greenbone.net");
script_family("Debian Local Security Checks");
script_dependencies("gather-package-list.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("ssh/login/debian_linux", "ssh/login/packages");
script_tag(name: "affected", value: "bitlbee on Debian Linux");
script_tag(name: "insight", value: "This program can be used as an IRC server which forwards everything you
say to people on other chat networks: Jabber (which includes Google Talk
and Facebook Chat), ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo! and Twitter/Identica/Status.net.");
script_tag(name: "solution", value: "For the stable distribution (jessie), these problems have been fixed in
version 3.2.2-2+deb8u1.
For the upcoming stable (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions,
these problems have been fixed in version 3.5-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your bitlbee packages.");
script_tag(name: "summary", value: "It was discovered that bitlbee, an IRC to other chat networks gateway,
contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of
service (via application crash), or potentially execute arbitrary
commands.");
script_tag(name: "vuldetect", value: "This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.");
exit(0);
}
include("revisions-lib.inc");
include("pkg-lib-deb.inc");
res = "";
report = "";
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee", ver:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-common", ver:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-dev", ver:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-libpurple", ver:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-plugin-otr", ver:"3.2.2-2+deb8u1", rls_regex:"DEB8.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee", ver:"3.5-1", rls_regex:"DEB9.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-common", ver:"3.5-1", rls_regex:"DEB9.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-dev", ver:"3.5-1", rls_regex:"DEB9.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-libpurple", ver:"3.5-1", rls_regex:"DEB9.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if ((res = isdpkgvuln(pkg:"bitlbee-plugin-otr", ver:"3.5-1", rls_regex:"DEB9.[0-9]+", remove_arch:TRUE )) != NULL) {
report += res;
}
if (report != "") {
security_message(data:report);
} else if (__pkg_match) {
exit(99); # Not vulnerable.
}