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FreeBSD Ports: libotr
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following package is affected: libotr CVE-2012-3461 The (1) otrl_base64_otr_decode function in src/b64.c, (2) otrl_proto_data_read_flags and (3) otrl_proto_accept_data functions in src/proto.c, and (4) decode function in toolkit/parse.c in libotr before 3.2.1 allocates a zero-length buffer when decoding a base64 string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a message with the value '?OTR:===.', which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.