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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200302-11
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PACKAGE : bitchx
SUMMARY : denial of service
DATE    : 2003-02-20 17:47 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote

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From advisory:

"A denial of service vulnerability exists in BitchX. Sending
a malformed RPL_NAMREPLY numeric 353 causes BitchX to segfault."

Read the full advisory at: 
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104554352513997&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-irc/bitchx upgrade to bitchx-1.0.19-r4 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge -u bitchx
emerge clean

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