Debian Security Advisory DSA 2049-1 (barnowl)

The remote host is missing an update to barnowl announced via advisory DSA 2049-1. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $Id: deb20491.nasl 6614 2017-07-07 12:09:12Z cfischer $ Description: Auto-generated from advisory DSA 2049-1 barnowl Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2010 E-Soft Inc...

Debian DSA-2049-1 : barnowl - buffer overflow

It has been discovered that barnowl, a curses-based tty Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr client, is prone to a buffer overflow via its 'CC:' handling, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in th...