IRC Services: Denial of service

IRC Services: Denial of service A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services. ircservices 2007-12-13 2007-12-13 199897 remote 5.0.63 5.0.63

IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay Chat networks.

loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.

A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63"

CVE-2007-6122 p-y p-y p-y