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
This issue affects the versions of the bip package, as shipped with Fedora release of 12 and 13. Please fix.
Created bip tracking bugs for this issue Affects: fedora-all [bug 630438]
The CVE identifier of CVE-2010-3071 has been assigned to this issue.