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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200606-26">
  <title>EnergyMech: Denial of service</title>
  <synopsis>
    A Denial of Service vulnerability was discovered in EnergyMech that is
    easily exploitable via IRC.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">emech</product>
  <announced>2006-06-26</announced>
  <revised count="02">2006-07-29</revised>
  <bug>132749</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/emech" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.0.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.0.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    EnergyMech is an IRC bot programmed in C.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and
    will cause a crash from a segmentation fault.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>
    By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this
    vulnerability to cause a Denial of Service.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All EnergyMech users should update to the latest stable version:
    </p>
    <code> 
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/emech-3.0.2"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.energymech.net/versions-3.0.html">EnergyMech Changelog</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-3293">CVE-2006-3293</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2006-06-22T18:15:43Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2006-06-22T23:37:12Z">
    hlieberman
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2006-06-23T18:56:34Z">
    falco
  </metadata>
</glsa>