FreeBSD : bnc -- remotely exploitable buffer overflow in getnickuserhost (9be819c6-4633-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82)

A LSS Security Advisory reports : There is a buffer overflow vulnerability in getnickuserhost function that is called when BNC is processing response from IRC server. Vulnerability can be exploited if attacker tricks user to connect to his fake IRC server that will exploit this vulnerability. If...

FreeBSD : gaim -- remote DoS on receiving certain messages over IRC (ec09baa3-a9f5-11d9-a788-0001020eed82)

The GAIM team reports : The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows 1 remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via ircmsgkick, ircmsgmode, ircmsgpart, ircmsgquit, 2 remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via...

Slackware 8.1 / 9.0 : EPIC4 security fixes (SSA:2003-141-01)

New EPIC4 packages are available to fix security problems found by Timo Sirainen. EPIC4 is an IRC Internet Relay Chat client. Under certain circumstances, a malicious IRC server could cause EPIC4 to crash, or possibly to run arbitrary code as the user running EPIC4. All sites running EPIC4 are...

CVE-2002-1840

Summary: CVE-2002-1840 affects the irssi IRC client (version 0.8.4) and is described across multiple sources. The vulnerability arises from a backdoor that could be present in the configuration file after 14-March-2002, enabling remote attackers to access the affected system. The available connec...

CVE-2002-1840

irssi IRC client 0.8.4, when downloaded after 14-March-2002, could contain a backdoor in the configuration file, which allows remote attackers to access the system...

CVE-2001-1488

The CVE-2001-1488 entry concerns Open Projects Network Internet Relay Chat (IRC) daemon u2.10.05.18, which does not perform a double-reverse DNS lookup. This information indicates a potential hostname spoofing vulnerability where remote attackers could spoof any valid hostname on the Internet. Th...

php2014.txt

/ -------------------------------------------------------- Neo Security Team NST® - Advisory 14 - 17/04/05 -------------------------------------------------------- Program: phpBB 2.0.14 Homepage: http://www.phpbb.com Vulnerable Versions: phpBB 2.0.14 & Lower versions Risk: Low Risk!! Impact:...

IRC Bot Detection

This host seems to be running an ident server, but before any request is sent, the server gives an answer about a connection to port 6667. It is very likely this system has been compromised by an IRC bot and is now a 'zombie' that can participate in 'distributed denial of service' DDoS attacks...

devhelp, mozilla security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:435 Updated mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 24 May 2005 This erratum now includes updated devhelp packages...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: mozilla security update

Updated mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Updated 24 May 2005 This erratum now includes updated devhelp packages which are required to satisfy a dependancy on...

CVE-2005-0987

Unknown vulnerability in IRC Services NickServ LISTLINKS before 5.0.50 allows remote attackers to obtain the links of a nick...

CVE-2005-0966

The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows 1 remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via ircmsgkick, ircmsgmode, ircmsgpart, ircmsgquit, 2 remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via ircmsginvite, or 3 malicious IR...

RHEL 2.1 / 3 : Mozilla (RHSA-2005:384)

Updated Mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Several bu...

mozilla security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2005:386 Updated mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Mozilla security update

Updated mozilla packages that fix various security bugs are now available. This update has been rated as having Important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Mozilla is an open source Web browser, advanced email and newsgroup client, IRC chat client, and HTML editor. Vladimir V...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2005:071)

More vulnerabilities have been discovered in the gaim instant messaging client : A buffer overflow vulnerability was found in the way that gaim escapes HTML, allowing a remote attacker to send a specially crafted message to a gaim client and causing it to crash CVE-2005-0965. A bug was discovered...

CVE-2005-0131

The Quick Connection dialog in Konversation 0.15 inadvertently uses the user-provided password as the nickname instead of the user-provided nickname when connecting to the IRC server, which could leak the password to other users...

CVE-2005-0129

The Quick Buttons feature in Konversation 0.15 allows remote attackers to execute certain IRC commands via a channel name containing "%" variables, which are recursively expanded by the Server::parseWildcards function when the Part Button is selected...

CVE-2005-0130

Certain Perl scripts in Konversation 0.15 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in 1 channel names or 2 song names that are not properly quoted when the user runs IRC scripts...

CVE-2005-0131

The Quick Connection dialog in Konversation 0.15 inadvertently uses the user-provided password as the nickname instead of the user-provided nickname when connecting to the IRC server, which could leak the password to other users...