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Debian DSA-2049-1 : barnowl - buffer overflow

high Nessus Plugin ID 46708

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It has been discovered that barnowl, a curses-based tty Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr client, is prone to a buffer overflow via its 'CC:' handling, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.

Solution

Upgrade the barnowl packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-4+lenny1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=574418

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2049

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 46708

File Name: debian_DSA-2049.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/25/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:barnowl, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Patch Publication Date: 5/23/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0793

DSA: 2049