CVE-2006-6811

Published Dec 29, 2006 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS 10.6% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-409-1 ksirc vulnerability
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 8:42 PM
Reserved
Dec 29, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Dec 29, 2006, 11:28 AM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:33 PM