Bob Nomnomnom reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in IRCD-Hybrid, an Internet Relay Chat server. A remote attacker may use an error in the masks validation and crash the server.

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Debian Security Advisory DSA-2618-1                   This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
http://www.debian.org/security/                             Luciano Bello
February 07, 2013                      http://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package        : ircd-hybrid
Vulnerability  : denial of service
Problem type   : remote
Debian-specific: no
CVE ID         : CVE-2013-0238
Debian Bug     : 699267

Bob Nomnomnom reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in IRCD-Hybrid,
an Internet Relay Chat server. A remote attacker may use an error in
the masks validation and crash the server.

For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in
version 7.2.2.dfsg.2-6.2+squeeze1.

For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-10.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-10.

We recommend that you upgrade your ircd-hybrid packages.

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