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IRC Services Denial of Service Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA27761
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Release Date:
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2007-11-21
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Last Update:
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2007-11-28
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Popularity:
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4,024 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | IRC Services 5.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2007-6122
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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to the improper handling of overly long passwords within the "default_encrypt()" function in encrypt.c and can be exploited to crash an affected server.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 5.0.63 and 5.1.9.
Solution:
Update to version 5.0.63 or 5.1.9.
http://www.ircservices.za.net/download.html
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits loverboy.
Changelog:
2007-11-28: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.ircservices.za.net/Changes.txt
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