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From: Pierre-Yves Rofes <py@g.o>
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Subject: [gentoo-announce] [ GLSA 200712-12 ] IRC Services: Denial of Service
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2007 22:56:22
Message-Id: 47619AA9.6050902@gentoo.org
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10 Severity: Normal
11 Title: IRC Services: Denial of Service
12 Date: December 13, 2007
13 Bugs: #199897
14 ID: 200712-12
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18 Synopsis
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21 A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services.
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23 Background
24 ==========
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26 IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay
27 Chat networks.
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29 Affected packages
30 =================
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33 Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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35 1 net-irc/ircservices < 5.0.63 >= 5.0.63
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37 Description
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40 loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file
41 encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.
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43 Impact
44 ======
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46 A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the
47 vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
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49 Workaround
50 ==========
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52 There is no known workaround at this time.
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54 Resolution
55 ==========
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57 All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version:
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59 # emerge --sync
60 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63"
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62 References
63 ==========
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65 [ 1 ] CVE-2007-6122
66 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6122
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68 Availability
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71 This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
72 the Gentoo Security Website:
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74 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-12.xml
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76 Concerns?
77 =========
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79 Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
80 confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
81 importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
82 security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at
83 http://bugs.gentoo.org.
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85 License
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88 Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
89 belongs to its owner(s).
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91 The contents of this document are licensed under the
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