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.
Metrics
Affected Vendors & Products
Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
Ubuntu USN |
USN-409-1 | ksirc vulnerability |
Fixes
Solution
No solution given by the vendor.
Workaround
No workaround given by the vendor.
References
History
No history.
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T20:42:07.123Z
Reserved: 2006-12-29T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2006-6811
No data.
Status : Deferred
Published: 2006-12-29T11:28:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2006-6811
No data.
OpenCVE Enrichment
No data.
Ubuntu USN