CVE-2006-6811 Information

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.

Reference

http://osvdb.org/33443 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