From security-advisories@freebsd.org Fri Dec 29 13:07:06 2000 From: FreeBSD Security Advisories To: BUGTRAQ@SECURITYFOCUS.COM Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 05:53:10 -0800 Subject: [BUGTRAQ] FreeBSD Ports Security Advisory: FreeBSD-SA-00:78.bitchx [REVISED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-00:78 Security Advisory FreeBSD, Inc. Topic: bitchx/ko-bitchx allows remote code execution [REVISED] Category: ports Module: bitchx/ko-bitchx Announced: 2000-12-20 Reissued: 2000-12-29 Credits: nimrood Affects: Ports collection prior to the correction date. Corrected: 2000-12-12 Vendor status: Updated version released FreeBSD only: NO 0. Revision History v1.0 2000-12-20 Initial release v1.1 2000-12-29 Noted the vulnerability of ko-bitchx also I. Background bitchx is a popular IRC client. It is available in a Korean-localized version as the ko-bitchx package. II. Problem Description The bitchx port, versions prior to 1.0c17_1, and ko-bitchx port, versions prior to 1.0c16_3, contains a remote vulnerability. Through a stack overflow in the DNS parsing code, a malicious remote user in control of their reverse DNS records may crash a bitchx session, or cause arbitrary code to be executed by the user running bitchx. The bitchx/ko-bitchx ports are not installed by default, nor are they "part of FreeBSD" as such: they are part of the FreeBSD ports collection, which contains over 4300 third-party applications in a ready-to-install format. The ports collections shipped with FreeBSD 3.5.1 and 4.2 contain this problem since it was discovered after the releases. FreeBSD makes no claim about the security of these third-party applications, although an effort is underway to provide a security audit of the most security-critical ports. III. Impact Malicious remote users may execute arbitrary code as the user running bitchx. If you have not chosen to install the bitchx or ko-bitchx port/packages, then your system is not vulnerable to this problem. IV. Workaround Deinstall the bitchx and/or ko-bitchx port/packages, if you have installed them. V. Solution One of the following: 1) Upgrade your entire ports collection and rebuild the bitchx or ko-bitchx ports. 2) Deinstall the old package and install a new package dated after the correction date, obtained from: [bitchx] ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/irc/BitchX-1.0c17_1.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/irc/BitchX-1.0c17_1.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-4-stable/irc/BitchX-1.0c17_1.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/irc/BitchX-1.0c17_1.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-5-current/irc/BitchX-1.0c17_1.tgz [ko-bitchx] ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/korean/ko-BitchX-1.0c16_3.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/korean/ko-BitchX-1.0c16_3.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-4-stable/korean/ko-BitchX-1.0c16_3.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/korean/ko-BitchX-1.0c16_3.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-5-current/korean/ko-BitchX-1.0c16_3.tgz NOTE: It may be several days before updated ko-bitchx packages are available. 3) download a new port skeleton for the bitchx/ko-bitchx port from: http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ and use it to rebuild the port. 4) Use the portcheckout utility to automate option (3) above. The portcheckout port is available in /usr/ports/devel/portcheckout or the package can be obtained from: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-3-stable/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-4-stable/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-current/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/alpha/packages-5-current/devel/portcheckout-2.0.tgz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iQCVAwUBOkyVpVUuHi5z0oilAQHtTwP9E5ykEMUfnT8ihxBTfolYtjIzTcwK9G4w wiU2ldGTkEJWze1gc02cBq9i0zhG27cpHRgrDGE3xpVg2W5rra9r9JpGG75VRktE f0AfiBnvJd7Oy+svDpHngqNx6/mTxrumh9qsEOSeP81ko9oWOHuf/Ek1VQDp9mFj ONhD/SENhHI= =Cpy1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----