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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.53285
Category:Debian Local Security Checks
Title:Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-595-1)
Summary:The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'bnc' package(s) announced via the DSA-595-1 advisory.
Description:Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'bnc' package(s) announced via the DSA-595-1 advisory.

Vulnerability Insight:
Leon Juranic discovered that BNC, an IRC session bouncing proxy, does not always protect buffers from being overwritten. This could exploited by a malicious IRC server to overflow a buffer of limited size and execute arbitrary code on the client host.

For the stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 2.6.4-3.3.

This package does not exist in the testing or unstable distributions.

We recommend that you upgrade your bnc package.

Affected Software/OS:
'bnc' package(s) on Debian 3.0.

Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).

CVSS Score:
10.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2004-1052
BugTraq ID: 11647
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11647
Bugtraq: 20041110 BNC 2.8.9 remote buffer overflow (Google Search)
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110011817627839&w=2
Debian Security Information: DSA-595 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-595
http://security.lss.hr/en/index.php?page=details&ID=LSS-2004-11-03
http://secunia.com/advisories/13149/
XForce ISS Database: bnc-irc-getnickuserhost-bo(18013)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18013
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