[Secure-testing-team] Bug#665205: bitlbee: please backport group privileges fix from unstable to squeeze

[Jonathan Wiltshire]

Source: bitlbee
Version: 1.2.8-1
Severity: normal
Tags: security squeeze

This is CVE-2012-1187 [1]

Please investigate and if necessary backport the upstream fix [2] for this
problem to bitlbee in Squeeze for the next point release. If you need
assistance at any stage, do not hesitate to ask me.

Thanks.

1: http://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-1187
2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-1187


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash