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BitchX - denial of service

Package(s):BitchX CVE #(s):
Created:February 20, 2003 Updated:May 26, 2003
Description: From this Bugtraq posting:

A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. Sending a malformed RPL_NAMREPLY numeric 353 causes BitchX to segfault. This problem was reported to panasync@efnet#bitchx on Jan 30 2003, as of this writing we are unaware of any patches or workarounds provided by panasync and or any members of #bitchx

Alerts:
Conectiva CLA-2003:655 2003-05-26
Slackware ssa:2003-141-02 2003-05-22
Debian DSA-306-1 2003-05-19
Gentoo 200302-11 2003-02-20

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