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Bird Chat User Flooding Denial of Service

“Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in Bird Chat, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the user handling. This can be exploited by flooding a server with users.

Successful exploitation crashes all chat clients connected to a server.

Solution: According to the vendor, this has been fixed in version 1.61 Security Release.

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