Bug 891033 (CVE-2012-6084)

Summary:	CVE-2012-6084 ircd-ratbox: remote crash during the capability negotiation (CAPAB module)
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala <huzaifas>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Description Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-01 06:36:54 UTC

A remotely triggerable crash flaw was found in ircd-ratbox-2.x.
The bug has to do with server capability negotiation.  A malformed request will trigger a crash due to invalid assumptions.

Details:
http://rabbit.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/ASA-2012-12-31.txt
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/12/31/2241229/efnet-paralyzed-by-vulnerability

Comment 1 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-01 06:39:47 UTC

Created ircd-ratbox tracking bugs for this issue

Affects: fedora-all [bug 891034]
Affects: epel-5 [bug 891035]

Comment 2 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-01 07:08:04 UTC

This issue was originally disclosed via the following email:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/544

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2013-01-01 07:47:12 UTC

This issue was assigned CVE-2012-6084 via:
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q4/546

Comment 4 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:59:48 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.