Detections
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Multiple ircii-based Clients Remote Overflows
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1858
Synopsis
The remote host is running a version of the BitchX IRC client that may contain buffer overflows.Description
Multiple vendor ircii-based client, including BitchX version 1.0c19 and possibly earlier, are vulnerable to multiple buffer overflows. A remote attacker could overflow a buffer to cause the corruption of heap memory, allowing the attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system or possibly cause the client to crash.Solution
Upgrade or patch according to vendor recommendations.Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 1858
Family: IRC Clients
Published: 8/20/2004
Updated: 3/6/2019
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.1
Temporal Score: 3.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.6
Temporal Score: 4.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/a:colten_edwards:bitchx
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2003-0321, CVE-2003-0328