gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200606-26.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200606-26">
<title>EnergyMech: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in EnergyMech that is
easily exploitable via IRC.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">emech</product>
<announced>2006-06-26</announced>
<revised count="02">2006-07-29</revised>
<bug>132749</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-irc/emech" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">3.0.2</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">3.0.2</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
EnergyMech is an IRC bot programmed in C.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and
will cause a crash from a segmentation fault.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this
vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All EnergyMech users should update to the latest stable version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/emech-3.0.2"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://www.energymech.net/versions-3.0.html">EnergyMech Changelog</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3293">CVE-2006-3293</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-06-22T18:15:43Z">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-06-22T23:37:12Z">
hlieberman
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-06-23T18:56:34Z">
falco
</metadata>
</glsa>