Re: [BUG SUB] silc-server 1.0.2 denial of service vulnerability - silc-server

Pekka Riikonen <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.silc.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Frank Benkstein wrote:

: Software: silc-server
: Version: 1.0.2
: Operating System: Linux
: Installation: source
: Severity: critical
: 
: Description:
: 
: The current version of silc-server makes it possible to crash a networks 
: SILC router (or standalone server), when a new channel is created. All 
: it takes is to specify an invalid hmac algorithm name and no cipher 
: algorithm name. This results in an null pointer dereference in 
: \'SILC_SERVER_CMD_FUNC(join)\' at line 2444 in apps/silcd/command.c.
: 
: Fix:
: 
: I posted a fix to the Gentoo Bug tracker:
: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=112279&action=view
:
Pat, please apply the fix and release new SILC Server.

	Pekka
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 Pekka Riikonen                                 priikone at silcnet.org
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