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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200712-12 |
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Severity: Normal |
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Title: IRC Services: Denial of Service |
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Date: December 13, 2007 |
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Bugs: #199897 |
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ID: 200712-12 |
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Synopsis |
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A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services. |
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Background |
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IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay |
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Chat networks. |
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Affected packages |
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected |
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1 net-irc/ircservices < 5.0.63 >= 5.0.63 |
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Description |
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loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file |
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encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords. |
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Impact |
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A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the |
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vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service. |
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Workaround |
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There is no known workaround at this time. |
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Resolution |
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All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version: |
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# emerge --sync |
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63" |
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References |
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[ 1 ] CVE-2007-6122 |
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http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6122 |
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Availability |
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at |
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the Gentoo Security Website: |
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http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200712-12.xml |
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Concerns? |
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the |
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confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost |
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importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to |
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security@g.o or alternatively, you may file a bug at |
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http://bugs.gentoo.org. |
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License |
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Copyright 2007 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text |
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belongs to its owner(s). |
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The contents of this document are licensed under the |
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Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license. |
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 |
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