From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri May 30 2003 - 05:52:32 CDT

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TITLE:
BNC IRC proxy Denial of Service

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8900/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From local network

SOFTWARE:
BNC IRC proxy 2.x

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been identified in BNC IRC proxy, allowing
malicious people to cause a Denial of Service.

The problem is that the service can't handle multiple invalid
requests. This causes the service to stop accepting new requests.

SOLUTION:
The latest version isn't vulnerable.

Make sure that the proxy only can be reached by trusted users.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.gotbnc.com/changes.html

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