There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as
    demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function. (CVE-2020-14148)

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

  - The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as     demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function. (CVE-2020-14148)

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

It was discovered that there was an out-of-bounds access vulnerability in the server-server protocol in the ngircd Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server.

For Debian 8 'Jessie', this issue has been fixed in ngircd version 22-2+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your ngircd packages.

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.

Update to version 26, a bugfix and security release. FIxes CVE-2020-14148.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
405771	Alpine: ngircd: security update to 24-r5	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	10/31/2023	7/2/2026	high
405772	Alpine: ngircd: security update to 25-r1	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	10/31/2023	7/2/2026	high
400370	Alpine: multiple ngircd packages: security update to 25-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	8/16/2023	7/2/2026	high
400370	Alpine: multiple ngircd packages: security update to 25-r0 (deprecated)	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	8/16/2023	7/2/2026	high
405771	Alpine: ngircd: security update to 24-r5	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	10/31/2023	7/2/2026	high
405772	Alpine: ngircd: security update to 25-r1	Tenable Cloud Security	Alpine Linux Local Security Checks	10/31/2023	7/2/2026	high
259134	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2020-14148	Nessus	Misc.	8/30/2025	8/30/2025	high
137671	Debian DLA-2252-1 : ngircd security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	6/22/2020	1/11/2021	high
138196	Fedora 31 : ngircd (2020-8c33e3a771)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/8/2020	3/4/2024	high
138197	Fedora 32 : ngircd (2020-e6d1d849c5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/8/2020	3/4/2024	high

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