oss-security - Re: CVE Request -- Bip -- Remote Dos (crash) by exchanging user credentials

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Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 14:44:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request -- Bip -- Remote Dos (crash) by
 exchanging user credentials

Please use CVE-2010-3071

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Jan Lieskovsky" <jlieskov@...hat.com> wrote:

> Hello Steve, vendors,
> 
>    A denial of service flaw was found in the way Bip IRC Bouncer
> exchanged user credentials by initiating the IRC protocol session.
> A remote, unauthenticated user could send a specially crafted
> connection request, leading to bip daemon crash (NULL pointer
> dereference)
> 
> References:
>    [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=595409
>    [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=630437
> 
> Could you allocate CVE id for this one?
> 
> Thanks && Regards, Jan.
> --
> Jan iankko Lieskovsky / Red Hat Security Response Team

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