Bug 303735 (CVE-2009-4016)

Summary:	net-irc/ircd-hybrid: remote command execution (CVE-2009-4016)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	trivial	CC:	net-irc
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/i/ircd-hybrid/ircd-hybrid_7.2.2.dfsg.2-4+lenny1.diff.gz
Whiteboard:	~1 [noglsa]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-02-06 15:07:27 UTC

CVE-2009-4016 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-4016):
  Integer underflow in the clean_string function in irc_string.c in (1)
  IRCD-hybrid 7.2.2 and 7.2.3, (2) ircd-ratbox before 2.2.9, and (3)
  oftc-hybrid before 1.6.8, when flatten_links is disabled, allows
  remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of
  service (daemon crash) via a LINKS command.

Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-02-06 15:08:25 UTC

net-irc: please provide a newer ebuild.

Comment 2 Samuli Suominen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-03-03 11:50:00 UTC

# Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org> (03 Mar 2010)
# Masked for QA, security                             
#                                                     
# After more than a year of no word from maintainers  
#                                                     
# Internal copy of vulnerable libpcre, bug 258330     
# Remote command execution, CVE-2009-4016, bug 303735 
# Build issues, bug 212255                            
#                                                     
# Masked for removal in 60 days.                      
net-irc/ircd-hybrid

Comment 3 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-07-05 09:16:34 UTC

Package was treecleaned.

Comment 4 Alex Legler (RETIRED) archtester

2010-08-17 19:07:53 UTC

Package was never stable. Closing noglsa.