A ngIRCd security update has been released for Gentoo Linux

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200501-40
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http://security.gentoo.org/
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Severity: High
Title: ngIRCd: Buffer overflow
Date: January 28, 2005
Bugs: #79705
ID: 200501-40

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Synopsis
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ngIRCd is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that can be used to crash the daemon and possibly execute arbitrary code.



Background
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ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-irc/ngircd < 0.8.2 >= 0.8.2

Description
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Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow caused by an integer underflow in the Lists_MakeMask() function of lists.c.

Impact
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A remote attacker can exploit this buffer overflow to crash the ngIRCd daemon and possibly execute arbitrary code with the rights of the ngIRCd daemon process.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All ngIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-irc/ngIRCd-0.8.2"

References
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[ 1 ] ngIRCd Release Annoucement
http://arthur.ath.cx/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2005-January/000228.html

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200501-40.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0