GLSA-202608-25 : UnrealIRCd: Denial of service

high Nessus Plugin ID 339934

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202608-25 (UnrealIRCd: Denial of service)

A vulnerability has been discovered in UnrealIRCd. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Gentoo Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

All UnrealIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose >=net-irc/unrealircd-6.0.2

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 339934

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-202608-25.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Gentoo Local Security Checks

Published: 8/26/2026

Updated: 8/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Vulnerability Information

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

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/26/2026

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