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Gentoo GLSA-200606-26 Update: EnergyMech Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey June 26, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A Gentoo security bulletin highlights a vulnerability in EnergyMech, revealing a denial of service (DoS) issue that's easy to exploit via IRC channels.
A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in EnergyMech that is easily exploitable via IRC.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200606-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: EnergyMech: Denial of Service Date: June 26, 2006 Bugs: #132749 ID: 200606-26

Synopsis ======= A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in EnergyMech that is easily exploitable via IRC.
Background ========= EnergyMech is an IRC bot programmed in C.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-irc/emech < 3.0.2 >= 3.0.2
========== A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and will cause a crash from a segmentation fault.
Impact ===== By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnera...

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