CVE-2006-6811
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · CWE-617
6.5CVSS MEDIUM
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges requiredNone
User interactionRequired
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impactHigh
Exploit probability (EPSS)10%
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://osvdb.org/33443
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xmlAdvisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453Advisory
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txtAdvisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threadedAdvisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790Advisory