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GLSA-200801-13 : ngIRCd: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 30118

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200801-13 (ngIRCd: Denial of Service)

 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.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability to crash the ngIRCd daemon.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All ngIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-irc/ngircd-0.10.4'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200801-13

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 30118

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200801-13.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 1/29/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:ngircd, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 1/27/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0285

GLSA: 200801-13