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EnergyMech "parse_notice" Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20805
Release Date: 2006-06-27
Last Update: 2006-06-30
Popularity: 7,929 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:EnergyMech 3.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in EnergyMech, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within "parse_notice" when handling empty CTCP NOTICE messages. This can be exploited to cause the application to crash via an empty CTCP NOTICE sent from IRC.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 3.0.2.

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