CVE-2006-6811

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1

http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3