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Slackware Advisory SSA:2003-141-02 BitchX security fixes

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Slackware Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.8

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

11 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2003-141-02.

Insight

Insight

New BitchX packages are available to fix security problems found by Timo Sirainen. BitchX is an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client. Under certain circumstances, a malicious IRC server could cause BitchX to crash, or possibly to run arbitrary code as the user running BitchX.

Solution

Solution

Upgrade to the new package(s).