IRC Services: Denial of service — GLSA 200712-12

A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services.

Package	net-irc/ircservices on all architectures
Affected versions	< 5.0.63
Unaffected versions	>= 5.0.63

IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay Chat networks.

loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.

A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63"

Release date
December 13, 2007

Latest revision
December 13, 2007: 01

Severity
normal

Exploitable
remote

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