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ngircd: denial of service

Package(s):ngircd CVE #(s):CVE-2013-5580
Created:September 3, 2013 Updated:September 5, 2013
Description: From the Mageia advisory:

Denial of service bug (server crash) in ngIRCd before 20.3 which could happen when the configuration option "NoticeAuth" is enabled (which is NOT the default) and ngIRCd failed to send the "notice auth" messages to new clients connecting to the server.

Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2013-15278 2013-09-02
Fedora FEDORA-2013-15290 2013-09-02
Mageia MGASA-2013-0265 2013-08-30

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