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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="201405-21">
  <title>Charybdis, ShadowIRCd: Denial of Service</title>
  <synopsis>A vulnerability has been found in Charybdis and ShadowIRCd,
    possibly resulting in remote Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">shadowircd</product>
  <announced>May 18, 2014</announced>
  <revised>May 18, 2014: 1</revised>
  <bug>449544</bug>
  <bug>449790</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-irc/charybdis" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">3.4.2</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">3.4.2</vulnerable>
    </package>
    <package name="net-irc/shadowircd" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">6.3.3</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">6.3.3</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>Charybdis is the Atheme Project’s IRC daemon based on ratbox.
      ShadowIRCd is an IRC daemon based on Charybdis that adds several useful
      features.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in Charybdis and ShadowIRCd. Please
      review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="normal">
    <p>A remote attacker may be able to cause a Denial of Service condition.</p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>All Charybdis users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/charybdis-3.4.2"
    </code>
    
    <p>All ShadowIRCd users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
    
    <code>
      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-irc/shadowircd-6.3.3"
    </code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2012-6084">CVE-2012-6084</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Thu, 03 Jan 2013 17:21:58 +0000">
    underling
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Sun, 18 May 2014 17:28:17 +0000">ackle</metadata>
</glsa>