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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200701-26">
+ <title>KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ KSirc is vulnerable to a Denial of Service attack.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ksirc</product>
+ <announced>2007-01-29</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-01-30</revised>
+ <bug>159658</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="kde-base/ksirc" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">3.5.5-r1</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">3.5.5-r1</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ KSirc is the default KDE IRC client.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ KSirc fails to check the size of an incoming PRIVMSG string sent from
+ an IRC server during the connection process.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A malicious IRC server could send a long PRIVMSG string to the KSirc
+ client causing an assertion failure and the dereferencing of a null
+ pointer, resulting in a crash.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All KSirc users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=kde-base/ksirc-3.5.5-r1"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6811">CVE-2006-6811</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-01-24T20:03:08Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-01-24T20:03:22Z">
+ vorlon
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-01-25T11:44:16Z">
+ hyakuhei
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>