Debian DLA-384-1 : inspircd security and regression update

high Nessus Plugin ID 87897

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Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security update.

Description

It was discovered that InspIRCd did not validate the names in DNS responses before using them in inter-server communication. A remote attacker controlling the reverse DNS server for an IRC client could use this for denial of service or possibly for privilege escalation on the IRC network.

InspIRCd appears to have been completely unusable since version 1.1.22+dfsg-4+squeeze1 due to a bug in its build system triggered by (e)glibc versions newer than 2.9. This has also been fixed.

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.

Solution

Upgrade the affected inspircd, and inspircd-dbg packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 87897

File Name: debian_DLA-384.nasl

Version: 2.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Debian Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, 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: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:6.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:inspircd, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:inspircd-dbg

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/13/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8702

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