Summary
Bob Nomnomnom reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in IRCD-Hybrid, an Internet Relay Chat server. A remote attacker may use an error in the masks validation and crash the server.
Solution
For the stable distribution (squeeze), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-6.2+squeeze1.
For the testing distribution (wheezy), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-10.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1:7.2.2.dfsg.2-10.
We recommend that you upgrade your ircd-hybrid packages.
Insight
ircd-hybrid is a stable, high-performance IRC server that features:
Affected
ircd-hybrid on Debian Linux
Detection
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
References
Updated on 2015-03-25
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2013-0238 -
CVSS Base Score: 5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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