From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Tue Jul 06 2010 - 19:44:53 CDT

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TITLE:
IRC Services MemoServ Denial of Service and Information Disclosure

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA40505

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/40505/
Customer Area (Credentials Required)
https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=40505

RELEASE DATE:
2010-07-07

DISCUSS ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/40505/#comments

AVAILABLE ON SITE AND IN CUSTOMER AREA:
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http://secunia.com/advisories/40505/

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https://ca.secunia.com/?page=viewadvisory&vuln_id=40505

ONLY AVAILABLE WITH SECUNIA CSI AND SECUNIA PSI:
 * AUTOMATED SCANNING

http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/personal/
http://secunia.com/vulnerability_scanning/corporate/wsus_sccm_3rd_third_party_patching/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in IRC Services, which can be
exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) and
disclose potentially sensitive information.

1) An unspecified error within the handling of the "MemoServ FORWARD"
command can be exploited to cause a crash.

2) An unspecified error within the MemoServ service can be exploited
to read the memos of other users.

Vulnerability #1 has been reported in versions prior to 5.1.22 and
vulnerability #2 has been reported in versions prior to 5.1.23.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 5.1.23.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Charalampos Pournaris.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.ircservices.za.net/Changes.txt

OTHER REFERENCES:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

DEEP LINKS:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXTENDED SOLUTION:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

EXPLOIT:
Further details available in Customer Area:
http://secunia.com/products/corporate/EVM/

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