ngIRCd: Denial of Service

ngIRCd: Denial of Service ngIRCd does not properly sanitize commands sent by users, allowing for a Denial of Service. ngircd January 27, 2008 January 27, 2008: 02 204834 remote 0.10.4 0.10.4

ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

The IRC_PART() function in the file irc-channel.c does not properly check the number of parameters, referencing an invalid pointer if no channel is supplied.

A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash the ngIRCd daemon.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All ngIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/ngircd-0.10.4"

CVE-2008-0285 jaervosz rbu rbu