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TITLE:
DCC SOCKS Denial Of Service Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27262

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27262/

CRITICAL:
Less critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Distributed Checksum Clearinghouse (DCC) 1.3.x
http://secunia.com/product/5673/

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
handling of SOCKS streams and can potentially be exploited to crash
an affected server.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.3.65.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.3.66.

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

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/dcc/CHANGES

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