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gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200801-13">
<title>ngIRCd: Denial of Service</title>
<synopsis>
ngIRCd does not properly sanitize commands sent by users, allowing for a
Denial of Service.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">ngircd</product>
<announced>January 27, 2008</announced>
<revised>January 27, 2008: 02</revised>
<bug>204834</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-irc/ngircd" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.10.4</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.10.4</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
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.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash the ngIRCd
daemon.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All ngIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-irc/ngircd-0.10.4&quot;</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0285">CVE-2008-0285</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:42:37 +0000">
jaervosz
</metadata>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:06:19 +0000">
rbu
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:44:35 +0000">
rbu
</metadata>
</glsa>