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Posted on 19 January 2013
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TITLE:
Atheme "external logout" Denial of Service Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA51852
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RELEASE DATE:
2013-01-18
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DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Atheme, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to a NULL-pointer dereference error
(modules/nickserv/logout.c) when handling an external logout request
and can be exploited to crash Atheme IRC services.
The vulnerability is reported in versions 7.0.5.
SOLUTION:
Fixed in the source code repository.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
https://github.com/atheme/atheme/commit/1aaa9e8f1d0b0b67b36c2a6318c71beaa7f39194
http://packetstormsecurity.org/files/119635/Atheme-IRC-Services-7.0.5-Denial-Of-Service.html
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