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<glsa id="200712-12">
  <title>IRC Services: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">ircservices</product>
  <announced>2007-12-13</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-12-13</revised>
  <bug>199897</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/ircservices" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">5.0.63</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">5.0.63</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay
    Chat networks.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file
    encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the
    vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6122">CVE-2007-6122</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:48:10Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:51:02Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-11T22:44:42Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>
