metadata/glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">

<glsa id="200801-13">
  <title>ngIRCd: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>
    ngIRCd does not properly sanitize commands sent by users, allowing for a
    Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ngircd</product>
  <announced>January 27, 2008</announced>
  <revised>January 27, 2008: 02</revised>
  <bug>204834</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/ngircd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.10.4</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.10.4</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    The IRC_PART() function in the file irc-channel.c does not properly
    check the number of parameters, referencing an invalid pointer if no
    channel is supplied.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash the ngIRCd
    daemon.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All ngIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-irc/ngircd-0.10.4&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0285">CVE-2008-0285</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Tue, 15 Jan 2008 20:42:37 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:06:19 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Sun, 20 Jan 2008 01:44:35 +0000">
    rbu
  </metadata>
</glsa>