Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 201201-18
http://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: bip: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: January 30, 2012
Bugs: #336321, #400599
ID: 201201-18
Multiple vulnerabilities in bip might allow remote unauthenticated
attackers to cause a Denial of Service or possibly execute arbitrary
code.
bip is a multi-user IRC proxy with SSL support.
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-irc/bip < 0.8.8-r1 >= 0.8.8-r1
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in bip:
A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to execute
arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the bip daemon,
or cause a Denial of Service condition.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All bip users should upgrade to the latest version:
NOTE: The CVE-2010-3071 flaw was already corrected in an earlier
version of bip and is included in this advisory for completeness.
[ 1 ] CVE-2010-3071
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-3071
[ 2 ] CVE-2012-0806
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-0806
This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201201-18.xml
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
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