Security Advisory SA7149 - Conectiva issues updated packages to xchat issue

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Secunia Advisory SA7149

Conectiva issues updated packages to xchat issue

Secunia Advisory

SA7149

Release Date

2002-09-24

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

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Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

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Operating System

Conectiva Linux 6.0

Conectiva Linux 7.0

Conectiva Linux 8

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CVE Reference(s)

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Description

XChat does not filter server responses for the /dns command, this allows an attacker to execute system commands on the victims system.
The issue is pretty old and many other vendors has already addressed this issue.

Solution
Conectiva has issued updated packages:
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