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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200312-06 |
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GLSA: 200312-06 |
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Package: net-irc/xchat |
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Summary: Malformed dcc send requests in xchat-2.0.6 lead to a denial of |
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service |
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Severity: medium |
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Gentoo bug: 35623 |
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Date: 2003-12-14 |
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CVE: none |
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Exploit: remote |
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Affected: =2.0.6 |
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Fixed: >=2.0.6-r1 |
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DESCRIPTION: |
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There is a remotely exploitable bug in xchat 2.0.6 that could lead to a denial |
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of service attack. This is caused by sending a malformed DCC packet to xchat |
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2.0.6, causing it to crash. Versions prior to 2.0.6 do not appear to be |
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affected by this bug. |
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For more information, please see: |
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http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-announce/2003-12/msg00000.html |
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SOLUTION: |
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For Gentoo users, xchat-2.0.6 was marked ~arch (unstable) for most |
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architectures. Since it was never marked as stable in the portage tree, only |
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xchat users who have explictly added the unstable keyword to ACCEPT_KEYWORDS |
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are affected. Users may updated affected machines to the patched version of |
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xchat using the following commands: |
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emerge sync |
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emerge -pv '>=net-irc/xchat-2.0.6-r1' |
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emerge '>=net-irc/xchat-2.0.6-r1' |
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emerge clean |
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