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Debian DSA-2618-1 : ircd-hybrid - denial of service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 64493

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Synopsis

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

Description

Bob Nomnomnom reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in IRCD-Hybrid, an Internet Relay Chat server. A remote attacker may use an error in the masks validation and crash the server.

Solution

Upgrade the ircd-hybrid packages.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-6.2+squeeze1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699267

https://packages.debian.org/source/squeeze/ircd-hybrid

https://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2618

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 64493

File Name: debian_DSA-2618.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/8/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ircd-hybrid, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0238

BID: 57610

DSA: 2618