DSA-3527-1 inspircd -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-3527-1 inspircd -- security update

Date Reported:

24 Mar 2016

Affected Packages:

inspircd

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2015-8702.

More information:

It was discovered that inspircd, an IRC daemon, incorrectly handled PTR lookups of connecting users. This flaw allowed a remote attacker to crash the application by setting up malformed DNS records, thus causing a denial-of-service,

For the oldstable distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.5-1+deb7u2.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.17-1+deb8u1.

For the testing (stretch) and unstable (sid) distributions, this problem has been fixed in version 2.0.20-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your inspircd packages.