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.

CVSS v3.1

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

4.3 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

10.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 95th percentile

Published

2006-12-29

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-6810
• CVE-2006-6812
• CVE-2006-6809
• CVE-2006-6813
• CVE-2006-6808
• CVE-2006-6814