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Bug 303735 (CVE-2009-4016) - net-irc/ircd-hybrid: remote command execution (CVE-2009-4016)
Summary: net-irc/ircd-hybrid: remote command execution (CVE-2009-4016)
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2009-4016
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://security.debian.org/pool/updat...
Whiteboard: ~1 [noglsa]
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Reported: 2010-02-06 15:07 UTC by Stefan Behte (RETIRED)
Modified: 2010-08-17 19:07 UTC (History)
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Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 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 Security 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 gentoo-dev Security 2010-08-17 19:07:53 UTC 
Package was never stable. Closing noglsa.