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Gentoo: GLSA-200801-13 Normal: ngIRCd Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey January 27, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Explore the standard severity Gentoo GLSA 200801-13 notification regarding the ngIRCd Denial of Service vulnerability and the accompanying remediation instructions.
ngIRCd does not properly sanitize commands sent by users, allowing for a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200801-13:02 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: ngIRCd: Denial of Service Date: January 27, 2008 Updated: January 27, 2008 Bugs: #204834 ID: 200801-13:02

Synopsis ======= ngIRCd does not properly sanitize commands sent by users, allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-irc/ngircd < 0.10.4 >= 0.10.4
========== The IRC_PART() function in the file irc-channel.c does not properly check the number of parameters, referencing an invalid pointer if no channel is supplied.
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