Gentoo: GLSA 200701-26 Normal: KSirc Denial Of Service Issue

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200701-26 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability Date: January 29, 2007 Updated: January 30, 2007 Bugs: #159658 ID: 200701-26

Synopsis ======= KSirc is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
Background ========= KSirc is the default KDE IRC client.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 kde-base/ksirc < 3.5.5-r1 >= 3.5.5-r1
========== KSirc fails to check the size of an incoming PRIVMSG string sent from an IRC server during the connection process.
Impact ===== A malicious IRC server could send a long PRIVMSG string to the KSirc client causing an assertion...