Description: Luigi Auriemma has reported a vulnerability in Tenes Empanadas Graciela (TEG), which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an off-by-one error within the handling of the nickname supplied by the user. This can be exploited to crash the server by sending the same nickname (with 50 characters), from two or more clients.
The vulnerability has been reported in version 0.11.1 and prior.
Solution: Update to version 0.11.2.
Provided and/or discovered by: Luigi Auriemma
Changelog: 2006-03-16: Added CVE reference.
2006-03-21: Updated "Solution Status" and "Solution" sections.
2007-03-15: Updated "Solution" section.
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