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CVE-2006-6811

medium · 6.5

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.

6.5
CVSS
10.3%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
95th
EPSS percentile
2006-12-29
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-617

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
kdeksirc1.3.12
canonicalubuntu_linux5.10
canonicalubuntu_linux6.06
canonicalubuntu_linux6.10

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References

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curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2006-6811