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Red Hat Security Advisory: BitchX denial of service vulnerabilityJul 06, 2000, 18:55 (0 Talkback[s])Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 12:39 -0400 Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory Synopsis: BitchX denial of service vulnerability Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:042-01 Issue date: 2000-07-06 Updated on: 2000-07-06 Product: Red Hat Powertools Keywords: DoS Cross references: N/A 1. Topic: A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. 2. Relevant releases/architectures: Red Hat Powertools 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc 3. Problem description: A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. Improper handling of incoming invitation messages can crash the client. Any user on IRC can send the client an invitation message that causes BitchX to segfault. 4. Solution: For each RPM for your particular architecture, run: rpm -Fvh [filename] where filename is the name of the RPM. 5. Bug IDs fixed (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info): N/A 6. RPMs required: Red Hat Powertools 6.1: Red Hat Powertools 6.2: sparc: alpha: i386: sources: 7. Verification: MD5 sum Package Name ea54ae7d29be2abeb4e0252ad2e5a040 6.2/SRPMS/BitchX-1.0c16-1.src.rpm 7c517589b963bbf9a42025cbd216fcdb 6.2/alpha/BitchX-1.0c16-1.alpha.rpm 93a409b68bdef05468a86bfdae2cb8d5 6.2/i386/BitchX-1.0c16-1.i386.rpm 2317c93fa3ed3a0ee0566ecd1c6d98ad 6.2/sparc/BitchX-1.0c16-1.sparc.rpmThese packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at: http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html You can verify each package with the following command: If you only wish to verify that each package has not been
corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the
following command: 8. References: Thanks to Colten Edwards edwards@bitchx.dimension6.com for making us aware of the problem. |