CVE-2019-20917

Description

An issue was discovered in InspIRCd 2 before 2.0.28 and 3 before 3.3.0. The mysql module contains a NULL pointer dereference when built against mariadb-connector-c 3.0.5 or newer. When combined with the sqlauth or sqloper modules, this vulnerability can be used for remote crashing of an InspIRCd server by any user able to connect to a server.

References

https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4764

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/09/msg00015.html

https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/8745660fcdac7c1b80c94cfc0ff60928cd4dd4b7

https://github.com/inspircd/inspircd/commit/2cc35d8625b7ea5cbd1d1ebb116aff86c5280162

https://docs.inspircd.org/security/2019-02/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3