CVE-2006-6811

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.

🔗 References (26)

• cve@mitrehttp://osvdb.org/33443
• cve@mitrehttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
• cve@mitrehttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
• cve@mitrehttp://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
• cve@mitrehttp://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
• cve@mitrehttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded
• cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790
• cve@mitrehttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1
• cve@mitrehttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199
• cve@mitrehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134
• cve@mitrehttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
• cve@mitrehttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/33443
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml