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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-29T11:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:42:07.123Z

Reserved: 2006-12-29T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6811

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2006-12-29T11:28:00.000

Modified: 2024-02-08T02:22:22.513

Link: CVE-2006-6811

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