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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 =========================================================================== AUSCERT External Security Bulletin Redistribution ESB-2016.0792 inspircd security update 29 March 2016 =========================================================================== AusCERT Security Bulletin Summary --------------------------------- Product: inspircd Publisher: Debian Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 7 Debian GNU/Linux 8 UNIX variants (UNIX, Linux, OSX) Windows Impact/Access: Denial of Service -- Remote with User Interaction Resolution: Patch/Upgrade CVE Names: CVE-2015-8702 Original Bulletin: http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3527 Comment: This advisory references vulnerabilities in products which run on platforms other than Debian. It is recommended that administrators running inspircd check for an updated version of the software for their operating system. - --------------------------BEGIN INCLUDED TEXT-------------------- - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian Security Advisory DSA-3527-1 security@debian.org https://www.debian.org/security/ Sebastien Delafond March 24, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq - - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Package : inspircd CVE ID : CVE-2015-8702 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, 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. For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.20-1. We recommend that you upgrade your inspircd packages. 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