CVE-2008-3969 Information

Description

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in BitlBee before 1.2.3 allow remote attackers to \overwrite\ and \hijack\ existing accounts via unknown vectors related to \inconsistent handling of the USTATUS_IDENTIFIED state.\ NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2008-3920.

Reference

http://secunia.com/advisories/31690 http://secunia.com/advisories/31991 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200809-14.xml http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/changelog.html http://www.bitlbee.org/main.php/news.r.html http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/08/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/09/09/11 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31342 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=461424 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45132 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-September/msg00587.html