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 NVD

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

CVSS v2.0 NVD

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

EPSS

10.57% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 96th percentile

Published

2006-12-29

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

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

Security advisories

• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134
• http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry