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TITLE:
SILC Server "NEW_CLIENT" Packet Denial of Service

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29459

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29459/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
SILC Secure Internet Live Conferencing Server 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/1029/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the handling of
"NEW_CLIENT" packets. This can be exploited to crash the application
via a "NEW_CLIENT" packet that does not contain a nickname.

The vulnerability is reported in SILC Server prior to version 1.1.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.1.1 or later.
http://silcnet.org/software/download/server/

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://silcnet.org/docs/release/SILC%20Server%201.1.1

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