Security Advisory

CVE-2006-6811

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-12-29 11:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-07 20:42:07

Assigner mitre

State 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.

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