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EnergyMech: denial of service

Package(s):

emech

CVE #(s):

Created:

June 27, 2006

Updated:

June 28, 2006

Description:

A bug in EnergyMech fails to handle empty CTCP NOTICEs correctly, and will cause a crash from a segmentation fault. By sending an empty CTCP NOTICE, a remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial of service.

Alerts:

Gentoo

200606-26

2006-06-26

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