[gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200809-14 ] BitlBee: Security bypass

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200809-14

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http://security.gentoo.org/

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Severity: Normal

Title: BitlBee: Security bypass

Date: September 23, 2008

Bugs: #236160

ID: 200809-14

 

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Synopsis

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Multiple vulnerabilities in Bitlbee may allow to bypass security

restrictions and hijack accounts.

 

Background

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BitlBee is an IRC to IM gateway that support multiple IM protocols.

 

Affected packages

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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected

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1 net-im/bitlbee < 1.2.3 >= 1.2.3

 

Description

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Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities were reported, including a NULL

pointer dereference.

 

Impact

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A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite

existing IM accounts.

 

Workaround

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There is no known workaround at this time.

 

Resolution

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All BitlBee users should upgrade to the latest version:

 

# emerge --sync

# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/bitlbee-1.2.3"

 

References

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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3920

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3920

[ 2 ] CVE-2008-3969

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3969

 

Availability

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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at

the Gentoo Security Website:

 

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-14.xml

 

Concerns?

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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the

confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost

importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to

security ( -at -) gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at

http://bugs.gentoo.org.

 

License

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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text

belongs to its owner(s).

 

The contents of this document are licensed under the

Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

 

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5