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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-11 |
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PACKAGE : bitchx |
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SUMMARY : denial of service |
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DATE : 2003-02-20 17:47 UTC |
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EXPLOIT : remote |
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- From advisory: |
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"A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. Sending |
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a malformed RPL_NAMREPLY numeric 353 causes BitchX to segfault." |
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Read the full advisory at: |
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http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104554352513997&w=2 |
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SOLUTION |
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It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running |
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net-irc/bitchx upgrade to bitchx-1.0.19-r4 as follows: |
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emerge sync |
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emerge -u bitchx |
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emerge clean |
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aliz@g.o - GnuPG key is available at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~aliz |
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