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Gentoo Linux 200501-40 High Severity: ngIRCd Daemon Buffer Overflow

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Calendar Grey January 28, 2005
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ngIRCd has a critical buffer overflow flaw that may lead to the daemon's crash and allow execution of arbitrary code.
ngIRCd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that can be used to crash the daemon and possibly execute arbitrary code.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-40 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: ngIRCd: Buffer overflow Date: January 28, 2005 Bugs: #79705 ID: 200501-40

Synopsis ======= ngIRCd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that can be used to crash the daemon and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Background ========= ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-irc/ngircd < 0.8.2 >= 0.8.2
========== Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow caused by an integer underflow in the Lists_MakeMask() function of lists.c.
Impact ===== A remote attacker can exploit this ...

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