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TITLE:
EnergyMech "parse_notice" Denial of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA20805

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
EnergyMech 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/10653/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in EnergyMech, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service). 

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within "parse_notice"
when handling empty CTCP NOTICE messages. This can be exploited to
cause the application to crash via an empty CTCP NOTICE sent from
IRC.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to 3.0.2.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 3.0.2.
http://www.energymech.net/versions-3.0.html

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.energymech.net/versions-3.0.html

Gentoo:
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-26.xml

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