Summary
The remote host is missing an update to barnowl
announced via advisory DSA 2049-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%202049-1
Insight
It has been discovered that barnowl, a curses-based tty Jabber, IRC, AIM and Zephyr client, is prone to a buffer overflow via its CC: handling, which could lead to the execution of arbitrary code.
For the stable distribution (lenny), this problem has been fixed in version 1.0.1-4+lenny1.
For the testing distribution (squeeze) and the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.5.1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your barnowl packages.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2010-0793 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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