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FreeBSD : inspircd -- buffer overflow (f5f00804-a03b-11e1-a284-0023ae8e59f0)

high Nessus Plugin ID 59184

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

InspIRCd reports :

InspIRCd contains a heap corruption vulnerability that exists in the dns.cpp code. The res[] buffer is allocated on the heap and can be overflowed. The res[] buffer can be exploited during its deallocation.
The number of overflowed bytes can be controlled with DNS compression features.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.inspircd.org/

http://www.nessus.org/u?a419016b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 59184

File Name: freebsd_pkg_f5f00804a03b11e1a2840023ae8e59f0.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Published: 5/18/2012

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.6

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:freebsd:freebsd:inspircd, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 5/17/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/19/2012

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-1836