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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200411-24">
+ <title>BNC: Buffer overflow vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ BNC contains a buffer overflow vulnerability that may lead to Denial of
+ Service and execution of arbitrary code.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">BNC</product>
+ <announced>2004-11-16</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2004-11-16</revised>
+ <bug>70674</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-irc/bnc" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">2.9.1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">2.9.1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ BNC (BouNCe) is an IRC proxy server.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ Leon Juranic discovered that BNC fails to do proper bounds
+ checking when checking server response.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="high">
+ <p>
+ An attacker could exploit this to cause a Denial of Service and
+ potentially execute arbitary code with the permissions of the user
+ running BNC.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All BNC users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/bnc-2.9.1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="http://gotbnc.com/changes.html">BNC ChangeLog</uri>
+ <uri link="http://security.lss.hr/en/index.php?page=details&amp;ID=LSS-2004-11-03">LSS-2004-11-03</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2004-11-11T20:17:39Z">
+ lewk
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2004-11-11T21:49:41Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2004-11-12T23:44:26Z">
+ jaervosz
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>