Gentoo BitchX Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA31180
Release Date: 2008-07-22
Popularity: 1,325 views

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Gentoo Linux 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-4584
CVE-2007-5839


Description:
Gentoo has acknowledged a security issue and a vulnerability in bitchx, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to perform certain actions with escalated privileges and by malicious people to potentially compromise a user's system.

For more information:
SA26578
SA27463

Solution:
The vendor recommends to unmerge bitchx and use another IRC client.

Original Advisory:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-12.xml

Other References:
SA26578:
http://secunia.com/advisories/26578/

SA27463:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27463/


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