vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-5668: bitlbee -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 14, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the contact list. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2016-10189.

Solution

debian-upgrade-bitlbee
Title
Rapid7 Labs

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