Use-after-free vulnerability in bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a file transfer connection to expire.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - Use-after-free vulnerability in bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5 allows remote servers to cause a denial of     service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code by causing a file transfer connection to expire.
    (CVE-2016-10188)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

It was discovered that bitlbee, an IRC to other chat networks gateway, contained issues that allowed a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (via application crash), or potentially execute arbitrary commands.

CVE-2017-5668 Fix for incomplete fix for 'NULL pointer dereference with file transfer request from unknown contacts'. (Though this package wasn't in Wheezy with this issue, I mention it here. The fix was done with the second patch for CVE-2016-10189)

CVE-2016-10189 NULL pointer dereference with file transfer request from unknown contacts.

CVE-2016-10188 deactivate any incoming file transfer for bitlbee This affects any libpurple protocol when used through BitlBee. It does not affect other libpurple-based clients such as pidgin.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
254964	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10188	Nessus	Misc.	critical
100178	Debian DSA-3853-1 : bitlbee - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
97356	Debian DLA-832-1 : bitlbee security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

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