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Gentoo: GLSA-200904-14 Critical: Ventrilo Service Interruption Risk

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Calendar Grey April 14, 2009
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Uncover the Ventrilo DDoS flaw identified in Gentoo's GLSA 200904-13 and explore effective strategies to counteract the risk.
A vulnerability has been discovered in Ventrilo, allowing for a Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200904-13 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: Normal Title: Ventrilo: Denial of Service Date: April 14, 2009 Bugs: #234819 ID: 200904-13

Synopsis ======= A vulnerability has been discovered in Ventrilo, allowing for a Denial of Service.
Background ========= Ventrilo is a Voice over IP group communication server.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 media-sound/ventrilo-server-bin < 3.0.3 >= 3.0.3
========== Luigi Auriemma reported a NULL pointer dereference in Ventrilo when processing packets with an invalid version number followed by another packet.
Impact ===== A remote attacker could send specially crafted packets t...

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