Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=full-disclosure&m=110616016509114 http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/5c7bb4dd-6a56-11d9-97ec-000c6e8f12ef.html
Insight
The following package is affected: konversation
CVE-2005-0129
The Quick Buttons feature in Konversation 0.15 allows remote attackers to execute certain IRC commands via a channel name containing '%' variables, which are recursively expanded by the
Server::parseWildcards function when the Part Button is selected.
CVE-2005-0130
Certain Perl scripts in Konversation 0.15 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in (1) channel names or (2) song names that are not properly quoted when the user runs IRC sripts.
CVE-2005-0131
The Quick Connection dialog in Konversation 0.15 inadvertently uses the user-provided password as the nickname instead of the user-provided nickname when connecting to the IRC server, which could leak the password to other users.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2005-0129, CVE-2005-0130, CVE-2005-0131 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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