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<glsa id="201507-12">
  <title>libCapsiNetwork: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>A buffer overflow in libcapsinetwork might allow remote attackers
    to cause a Denial of Service condition.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">libcapsinetwork</product>
  <announced>2015-07-10</announced>
  <revised count="2">2015-07-11</revised>
  <bug>544324</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-libs/libcapsinetwork" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <vulnerable range="le">0.3.0-r2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>libCapsiNetwork is a C++ network library to allow fast development of
      server daemon processes.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>An off-by-one buffer overflow in libcapsinetwork network handling code
      is discovered.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker could send a specially crafted request to application,
      that is linked with libcapsinetwork, possibly resulting in a Denial of
      Service condition.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>Gentoo discontinued support for libCapsiNetwork.
      We recommend that users unmerge it:
    </p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --unmerge "net-libs/libcapsinetwork"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2015-0841">CVE-2015-0841</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2015-05-29T09:38:01Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2015-07-11T09:32:23Z">
    pinkbyte
  </metadata>
</glsa>
