Vulnerability CVE-2006-6811
Published: 2006-12-29   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-Other

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
KDE -> Ksirc 

 References:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023
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