CVE-2014-9403 (GCVE-0-2014-9403)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-19 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:40
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Summary
The CWebAdminMod::ChanPage function in modules/webadmin.cpp in ZNC before 1.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) by adding a channel with the same name as an existing channel but without the leading # character, related to a "use-after-delete" error.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-04-15 00:00
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