Ircd hybrid-6 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:581

Info

Ircd hybrid-6 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 581
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Aug 13 1999 12:00AM
Updated: Aug 13 1999 12:00AM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by jduck and stranjer of w00w00 and posted to the Bugtraq mailing list by Matt Conover <[email protected]> on Fri Aug 13 1999 07:01:58.
Vulnerable: Hybrid Hybrid Ircd 6.0 Beta58
Not Vulnerable: Hybrid Hybrid Ircd 5.0.3 p7
- FreeBSD FreeBSD 3.2
- NetBSD NetBSD 1.4.1 x86
- OpenBSD OpenBSD 2.5
- Redhat Linux 6.0
- Sun Solaris 7.0_x86
- Sun Solaris 7.0

Discussion

Ircd hybrid-6 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Ircd hybrid-6 (up to beta 58) has a vulnerability which can allow remote access to the irc server (ircd). In most cases this attack results in the attacker gaining the privileges of the user 'irc'.

This vulnerability is in the invite handling code (m_invite). In a channel with operators (ops) and modes +pi (paranoid + invite-only), a channel invitation is reported to all other operators. The buffer used to store the invitation notice can be overflown by up to 15 bytes.

Exploit / POC

Solution / Fix

Ircd hybrid-6 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
It is believed that this problem has been addressed in version 6 post Beta 58. Current versions of Hybrid can be found at:

ftp://ftp.blackened.com/pub/irc/hybrid

References

Ircd hybrid-6 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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