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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200807-12">
+ <title>BitchX: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ Multiple vulnerabilities in BitchX may allow for the remote execution of
+ arbitrary code or symlink attacks.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">bitchx</product>
+ <announced>2008-07-21</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2008-07-21</revised>
+ <bug>190667</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-irc/bitchx" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <vulnerable range="le">1.1-r4</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ BitchX is an IRC client.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ bannedit reported a boundary error when handling overly long IRC MODE
+ messages (CVE-2007-4584). Nico Golde reported an insecure creation of a
+ temporary file within the e_hostname() function (CVE-2007-5839).
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could entice a user to connect to a malicious IRC
+ server, resulting in the remote execution of arbitrary code with the
+ privileges of the user running the application. A local attacker could
+ perform symlink attacks to overwrite arbitrary files on the local
+ machine.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ Since BitchX is no longer maintained, we recommend that users unmerge
+ the vulnerable package and switch to another IRC client:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --unmerge "net-irc/bitchx"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4584">CVE-2007-4584</uri>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-5839">CVE-2007-5839</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2008-07-07T22:27:23Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2008-07-07T22:27:35Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2008-07-17T11:41:45Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>