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Debian Security Advisory DSA 3226-1 (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
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.
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 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.