Candidate: CVE-2017-5668
PublicDate: 2017-03-14 14:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-5668
 https://bugs.bitlbee.org/ticket/1282
 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/30/4
Description:
 bitlbee-libpurple before 3.5.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of
 service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) and possibly execute arbitrary
 code via a file transfer request for a contact that is not in the contact
 list.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for
 CVE-2016-10189.
Ubuntu-Description:
 seth-arnold> probably our packages are not-affected but marking as needed to
 communicate that this patch is needed too
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=853282
Priority: medium
Discovered-by:
Assigned-to:
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H [9.8 CRITICAL]

Patches_bitlbee:
 upstream: https://github.com/bitlbee/bitlbee/commit/30d598ce7cd3f136ee9d7097f39fa9818a272441
upstream_bitlbee: needed
precise_bitlbee: ignored (reached end-of-life)
precise/esm_bitlbee: DNE (precise was needed)
trusty_bitlbee: ignored (reached end-of-life)
trusty/esm_bitlbee: DNE (trusty was needed)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_bitlbee: DNE
vivid/ubuntu-core_bitlbee: DNE
xenial_bitlbee: ignored (end of standard support, was needed)
yakkety_bitlbee: ignored (reached end-of-life)
zesty_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
artful_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
bionic_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
cosmic_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
disco_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
eoan_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
focal_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
groovy_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
hirsute_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
impish_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
jammy_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)
devel_bitlbee: not-affected (3.5.1-1)