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CVE-2006-6811
Published: Dec 29, 2006
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
KsIRC 1.3.12 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long PRIVMSG string when connecting to an Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, which causes an assertion failure and results in a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: this issue was originally reported as a buffer overflow.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
USN-409-1
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_UBUNTU
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
x_refsource_CONFIRM
3023
exploit
x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB
ADV-2006-5199
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN
20070109 [KDE Security Advisory] ksirc Denial of Service vulnerability
mailing-list
x_refsource_BUGTRAQ
21790
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
MDKSA-2007:009
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
x_refsource_CONFIRM
ksirc-privmsg-bo(31134)
vdb-entry
x_refsource_XF
33443
vdb-entry
x_refsource_OSVDB
1017453
vdb-entry
x_refsource_SECTRACK
GLSA-200701-26
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_GENTOO
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