Gentoo: GLSA-202312-15 Normal: IRC Service Interruption Issue

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200712-12
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: IRC Services: Denial of Service
      Date: December 13, 2007
      Bugs: #199897
        ID: 200712-12


Synopsis
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A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services.

Background
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IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay
Chat networks.

Affected packages
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     Package              /  Vulnerable  /                  Unaffected
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  1  net-irc/ircservices      < 5.0.63                       >= 5.0.63

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loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file
encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.

Impact
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A remote attac...
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