BitlBee before 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the contact list.

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

  - BitlBee before 3.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and     crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the     contact list. (CVE-2016-10189)

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.

This update for bitlbee fixes the following security issues :

  - A file transfer request from a contact not in the     contact list could have resulted in a NULL pointer     dereference, causing remote DoS by malicious remote     clients (CVE-2016-10189, bnc#1022498).

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
254555	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2016-10189	Nessus	Misc.	high
100178	Debian DSA-3853-1 : bitlbee - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical
97711	openSUSE Security Update : bitlbee (openSUSE-2017-328)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
97356	Debian DLA-832-1 : bitlbee security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	critical

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-10189

high

Tenable Plugins

high

critical

high

critical