BitchX Trojan Horse Vulnerability

BID:7333

Info

BitchX Trojan Horse Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 7333
Class: Unknown
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 13 2003 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2003 12:00AM
Credit: This issue was reported by "Micha Szwaczko" <[email protected]>
Vulnerable: BitchX IRC Client 1.0 c19
+ Slackware Linux 9.0
+ Slackware Linux 8.1
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

BitchX Trojan Horse Vulnerability

It has been announced that the server hosting BitchX, www.bitchx.org, was compromised recently. It has been reported that the intruder made modifications to the source code of BitchX to include trojan horse code. Downloads of the source code of BitchX from www.bitchx.org, and mirrors, likely contain the trojan code.

Reports say that the trojan will run once upon compilation of BitchX. Once the trojan is executed, it attempts to connect to host 207.178.61.5 on port 6667.

The trojan horse modifications can be found in the configure script.

This BID will be updated as more information becomes available.

Exploit / POC

BitchX Trojan Horse Vulnerability

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

Solution / Fix

BitchX Trojan Horse Vulnerability

Solution:
Currently we are not aware of any vendor-supplied patches for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>.

References

BitchX Trojan Horse Vulnerability

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