Debian Security Advisory
DSA-3226-1 inspircd -- security update
- Date Reported:
- 15 Apr 2015
- Affected Packages:
- inspircd
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In the Debian bugtracking system: Bug 780880.
In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2012-6696, CVE-2012-6697, CVE-2015-6674. - More information:
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Adam discovered several problems in inspircd, an IRC daemon:
An incomplete patch for CVE-2012-1836 failed to adequately resolve the problem where maliciously crafted DNS requests could lead to remote code execution through a heap-based buffer overflow.
The incorrect processing of specific DNS packets could trigger an infinite loop, thus resulting in a denial of service.
For the stable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.5-1+deb7u1.
For the upcoming stable distribution (jessie) and unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.16-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your inspircd packages.