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GLSA-200606-26 : EnergyMech: Denial of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21759

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-200606-26 (EnergyMech: Denial of Service)

 A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and will cause a crash from a segmentation fault.
 Impact :

 By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All EnergyMech users should update to the latest stable version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=net-irc/emech-3.0.2'

See Also

http://www.energymech.net/versions-3.0.html

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200606-26

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21759

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200606-26.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 6/27/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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:emech, cpe:/o:gentoo:linux

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

Patch Publication Date: 6/26/2006

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/8/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-3293

GLSA: 200606-26