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sircd -- remote operator privilege escalation vulnerability

Description:

Secunia reports:

A vulnerability has been reported in sircd, which can be exploited by malicious users to gain operator privileges. The problem is that any user reportedly can set their usermode to operator. The vulnerability has been reported in versions 0.5.2 and 0.5.3. Other versions may also be affected.

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portaudit: sircd -- remote operator privilege escalation vulnerability

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Oliver Eikemeier <eik@FreeBSD.org>