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Bug#: 199897
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Status: RESOLVED
Resolution: FIXED
Assigned To: Gentoo Security <security@gentoo.org>
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Reporter: Lars Hartmann <lars@chaotika.org>
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Description:   Opened: 2007-11-21 14:22 0000 
A vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services, which can be exploited by
malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of overly long
passwords within the "default_encrypt()" function in encrypt.c and can be
exploited to crash an affected server.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.0.63 and 5.1.9.

Solution:
Update to version 5.0.63 or 5.1.9.
http://www.ircservices.za.net/download.html

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits loverboy.

Reproducible: Always

------- Comment #1 From Lars Hartmann 2007-11-26 21:41:31 0000 ------- 
maintainers - please advice

------- Comment #2 From Dawid Węgliński 2007-11-27 15:43:54 0000 ------- 
*** Bug 200467 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

------- Comment #3 From Robert Buchholz 2007-11-28 02:08:01 0000 ------- 
Missed that one.

------- Comment #4 From Dawid Węgliński 2007-11-29 20:06:23 0000 ------- 
Ok, bumped to 5.0.63 till i have some more time to bump to 5.1.9

------- Comment #5 From Robert Buchholz 2007-11-29 21:22:19 0000 ------- 
Arches, please test and mark stable net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63.
Target keywords : "ppc x86"

------- Comment #6 From Christian Faulhammer 2007-11-30 13:03:34 0000 ------- 
x86 stable

------- Comment #7 From Tobias Scherbaum 2007-11-30 22:45:38 0000 ------- 
ppc stable

------- Comment #8 From Lars Hartmann 2007-12-01 13:50:11 0000 ------- 
this bug is ready for glsa decision

------- Comment #9 From Robert Buchholz 2007-12-02 12:42:41 0000 ------- 
Voting YES.

------- Comment #10 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-12-10 21:48:29 0000 ------- 
yes too, request filed.

------- Comment #11 From Pierre-Yves Rofes 2007-12-13 22:08:44 0000 ------- 
GLSA 200712-12

------- Comment #12 From Peter Volkov 2008-03-06 09:50:56 0000 ------- 
Does not affect current (2008.0) release. Removing release.
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