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<glsa id="200701-26">
  <title>KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
  <synopsis>
    KSirc is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ksirc</product>
  <announced>2007-01-29</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-01-30</revised>
  <bug>159658</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="kde-base/ksirc" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.5.5-r1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.5.5-r1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    KSirc is the default KDE IRC client.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    KSirc fails to check the size of an incoming PRIVMSG string sent from
    an IRC server during the connection process.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A malicious IRC server could send a long PRIVMSG string to the KSirc
    client causing an assertion failure and the dereferencing of a null
    pointer, resulting in a crash.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All KSirc users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6811">CVE-2006-6811</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-01-24T20:03:08Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-01-24T20:03:22Z">
    vorlon
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-01-25T11:44:16Z">
    hyakuhei
  </metadata>
</glsa>
