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TITLE:
Colloquy "INVITE" Denial of Service Weakness

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23801

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/23801/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Colloquy 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/13278/

DESCRIPTION:
KF and LMH have reported a weakness in Colloquy, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The weakness is caused due to a format string error in the handling
of "INVITE" requests and can be exploited to crash the client by
providing a specially crafted channel string with such a request.

The weakness is reported in version 2.1 (3545). Other versions may
also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 2.1 (3558).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
KF and LMH

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://projects.info-pull.com/moab/MOAB-16-01-2007.html

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