From ${URL} : Two vulnerabilities were found in hexchat 2.11.0 and before. CVE-2016-2087: Directory traversal vulnerability in the client in HexChat 2.11.0 allows remote IRC servers to read or modify arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the server name. CVE-2016-2233: Stack-based buffer overflow in the inbound_cap_ls function in common/inbound.c in HexChat 2.10.2 allows remote IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a large number of options in a CAP LS message. References: https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39657/ https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39656/ Upstream references: https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/1933 https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/issues/1934 @maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please let us know if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
CVE-2016-2087 is fixed since 2.12.2 CVE-2016-2233 is fixed since 2.12.0 Please choose which version to stabilize and CC arches.
Arches please test and mark stable =net-irc/hexchat-2.12.4-r1 with target KEYWORDS: alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux
amd64 stable
x86 stable
ppc64 stable
Stable on alpha.
ppc stable
Stable for HPPA.
sparc stable
ia64 stable
arm stable, all arches done.
commit 27ff1000382449f4d75ff876985ae4a3d6d4957e Author: Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> Date: Sun Feb 5 18:27:07 2017 net-irc/hexchat: Security cleanup (bug #606496). Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.3, Repoman-2.3.1
PoC's are for DoS. GLSA Vote: No
*** Bug 606410 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***