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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
+<glsa id="200712-12">
+ <title>IRC Services: Denial of service</title>
+ <synopsis>
+ A Denial of Service vulnerability has been reported in IRC Services.
+ </synopsis>
+ <product type="ebuild">ircservices</product>
+ <announced>2007-12-13</announced>
+ <revised count="01">2007-12-13</revised>
+ <bug>199897</bug>
+ <access>remote</access>
+ <affected>
+ <package name="net-irc/ircservices" auto="yes" arch="*">
+ <unaffected range="ge">5.0.63</unaffected>
+ <vulnerable range="lt">5.0.63</vulnerable>
+ </package>
+ </affected>
+ <background>
+ <p>
+ IRC Services is a system of services to be used with Internet Relay
+ Chat networks.
+ </p>
+ </background>
+ <description>
+ <p>
+ loverboy reported that the "default_encrypt()" function in file
+ encrypt.c does not properly handle overly long passwords.
+ </p>
+ </description>
+ <impact type="normal">
+ <p>
+ A remote attacker could provide an overly long password to the
+ vulnerable server, resulting in a Denial of Service.
+ </p>
+ </impact>
+ <workaround>
+ <p>
+ There is no known workaround at this time.
+ </p>
+ </workaround>
+ <resolution>
+ <p>
+ All IRC Services users should upgrade to the latest version:
+ </p>
+ <code>
+ # emerge --sync
+ # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/ircservices-5.0.63"</code>
+ </resolution>
+ <references>
+ <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6122">CVE-2007-6122</uri>
+ </references>
+ <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:48:10Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-12-10T21:51:02Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+ <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-12-11T22:44:42Z">
+ p-y
+ </metadata>
+</glsa>