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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200712-12.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200712-12">
<title>IRC Services: Denial of service</title>
<synopsis>
A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ircservices</product>
<announced>2007-12-13</announced>
<revised count="01">2007-12-13</revised>
<bug>199897</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-irc/ircservices" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">5.0.63</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">5.0.63</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay
Chat networks.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file
encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the
vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6122">CVE-2007-6122</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:48:10Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:51:02Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-11T22:44:42Z">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>