Debian DSA-3527-1 : inspircd - security update

high Nessus Plugin ID 90160

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Synopsis

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

Description

It was discovered that inspircd, an IRC daemon, incorrectly handled PTR lookups of connecting users. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to crash the application by setting up malformed DNS records, thus causing a denial-of-service,

Solution

Upgrade the inspircd packages.

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.5-1+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.17-1+deb8u1.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 90160

File Name: debian_DSA-3527.nasl

Version: 2.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 3/25/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Temporal Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:inspircd, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:7.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:8.0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/24/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8702

DSA: 3527

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