Executive Summary

Summary
Title BitlBee: Security bypass
Informations
Name GLSA-200809-14 First vendor Publication 2008-09-23
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2008-09-23
Severity (Vendor) Normal Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Cvss Base Score 7.5 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 6.4 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities in Bitlbee may allow to bypass security restrictions and hijack accounts.

Background

BitlBee is an IRC to IM gateway that support multiple IM protocols.

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities were reported, including a NULL pointer dereference.

Impact

A remote attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to overwrite existing IM accounts.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All BitlBee users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-im/bitlbee-1.2.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2008-3920 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3920
[ 2 ] CVE-2008-3969 : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-3969

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-14.xml

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-14.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 29
Os 1

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for bitlbee FEDORA-2008-7274
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7274_bitlbee_fc9.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for bitlbee FEDORA-2008-7712
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7712_bitlbee_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for bitlbee FEDORA-2008-7761
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7761_bitlbee_fc8.nasl
2009-02-17 Name : Fedora Update for bitlbee FEDORA-2008-7830
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_7830_bitlbee_fc9.nasl
2008-10-03 Name : FreeBSD Ports: bitlbee
File : nvt/freebsd_bitlbee.nasl
2008-09-24 Name : Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200809-14 (bitlbee)
File : nvt/glsa_200809_14.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
47809 BitlBee Account Manipulation Security Bypass

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2008-09-28 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_24ec781b8c1111dd99230016d325a0ed.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-24 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-200809-14.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7761.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-12 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7830.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-10 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7712.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-09-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-7274.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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