CVE-2006-6811 (GCVE-0-2006-6811)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-12-29 11:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:42
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- n/a
Summary
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.
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