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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3527-1 (inspircd - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
It was discovered that inspircd, an IRC daemon, incorrectly handled PTR lookups of connecting users. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to crash the application by setting up malformed DNS records, thus causing a denial-of-service.
Affected Software
Affected Software
inspircd on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.5-1+deb7u2. For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.17-1+deb8u1. For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.20-1. We recommend that you upgrade your inspircd packages.