Debian Security Advisory
DSA-595-1 bnc -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 24 Nov 2004
- Affected Packages:
- bnc
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2004-1052.
- More information:
-
Leon Juranic discovered that BNC, an IRC session bouncing proxy, does not always protect buffers from being overwritten. This could exploited by a malicious IRC server to overflow a buffer of limited size and execute arbitrary code on the client host.
For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.4-3.3.
This package does not exist in the testing or unstable distributions.
We recommend that you upgrade your bnc package.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (woody)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/b/bnc/bnc_2.6.4-3.3_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.