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…

published December 29, 2006

CVSS

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EPSS

11%

Percentile

95.8

In the wild

Unconfirmed

What it is

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.

The record

Technical detail

CVSS: Not scored
CVSS v4.0: Not supplied
EPSS: 0.10568 · 95.8th percentile
Published: 2006-12-29T11:00Z

EPSS history

Timeline

29 DEC 11:00Z
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…
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