1. Gentoo Linux Security Advisory
| Advisory Reference | GLSA 200606-26 / emech |
| Release Date | June 26, 2006 |
| Latest Revision | July 29, 2006: 02 |
| Impact | normal |
| Exploitable | remote |
| Package | Vulnerable versions | Unaffected versions | Architecture(s) |
| net-irc/emech | < 3.0.2 | >= 3.0.2 | All supported architectures |
Related bugreports: #132749
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in EnergyMech that is easily exploitable via IRC.
EnergyMech is an IRC bot programmed in C.
A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and will cause a crash from a segmentation fault.
By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service.
There is no known workaround at this time.
All EnergyMech users should update to the latest stable version:
Code Listing 3.1: Resolution |
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/emech-3.0.2" |