CVE-2006-6811 | BDVDB-2026-21243 Detail
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.
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134
- http://osvdb.org/33443
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
Exploit#
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.