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TITLE:
Hybrid2 IRC Services Private Message Processing Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA38352

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/38352/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been discovered in Hybrid2 IRC Services, which
can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of
Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error when processing certain
private messages, which can be exploited to cause a crash by e.g.
sending a private message containing "help \t" to the MemoServ
service.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 1.9.4. Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Use in trusted IRC networks only.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported in a Debian bug by Julien Cristau.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=550389

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