Gentoo: 200703-12 Normal: SILC Server Denial of Service Risk

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200703-12 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: SILC Server: Denial of Service Date: March 14, 2007 Bugs: #169599 ID: 200703-12

Synopsis ======= SILC Server is affected by a Denial of Service vulnerability.
Background ========= SILC Server is a server for the Secure Internet Live Conferencing (SILC) protocol.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-im/silc-server < 1.0.2-r1 >= 1.0.2-r1
========== Frank Benkstein discovered a possible NULL pointer dereference in apps/silcd/command.c if a new channel is created without specifying a valid hmac or cipher algorithm name.
Impact ===== A remote attac...