[ GLSA 200501-40 ] ngIRCd: Buffer overflow

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ngIRCd: Buffer overflow

Background ngIRCd is a free open source daemon for Internet Relay Chat IRC. Description Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow caused by an integer underflow in the ListsMakeMask function of lists.c. Impact A remote attacker can exploit this buffer overflow to crash the ngIRCd daemon and...