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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Information
Published : 2006-12-29 11:28
Updated : 2025-04-09 00:30
NVD link : CVE-2006-6811
Mitre link : CVE-2006-6811
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2006-6811
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Products Affected
kde
- ksirc
canonical
- ubuntu_linux
CWE
CWE-617
Reachable Assertion