glsa-202107-22.xml


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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202107-22">
  <title>InspIRCd: Information disclosure</title>
  <synopsis>An information disclosure vulnerability in InspIRCd may allow
    remote attackers to obtain sensitive information.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">inspircd</product>
  <announced>2021-07-09</announced>
  <revised count="1">2021-07-09</revised>
  <bug>791589</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/inspircd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.10.0</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.10.0</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>InspIRCd is a modular Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server written in C++
      which was created from scratch to be stable, modern and lightweight.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>InspIRCd incorrectly handled malformed PONG messages, resulting in
      access of freed memory.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="low">
    <p>A remote attacker could send crafted packets to the server, possibly
      allowing them to obtain sensitive information.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All InspIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/inspircd-3.10.0"
    </code>
    
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-33586">CVE-2021-33586</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2021-07-08T23:19:01Z">sam_c</metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2021-07-09T02:55:39Z">sam_c</metadata>
</glsa>