Is Gentoo slow on the A/S/L?
A bugtraq announcement came out recently with a BitchX buffer overflow vulnerability.

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GENTOO LINUX SECURITY ANNOUNCEMENT 200303-21
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PACKAGE : bitchx
SUMMARY : buffer overflow
DATE : 2003-03-24 11:56 UTC
EXPLOIT : remote
VERSIONS AFFECTED : <1.0.19-r5
FIXED VERSION : >=1.0.19-r5
CVE :

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- From advisory:

"Full of sprintf() calls and relying on BIG_BUFFER_SIZE being large
enough. There's multiple ways to exploit it by giving
near-BIG_BUFFER_SIZE strings in various places."

Read the full advisory at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=104766521328322&w=2

SOLUTION

It is recommended that all Gentoo Linux users who are running
net-irc/bitchx upgrade to bitchx-1.0.19-r5 as follows:

emerge sync
emerge bitchx
emerge clean

more here.