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CVE-2006-6811

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.

Published

2006-12-29T11:28:00.000

Last Modified

2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 (MEDIUM)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: MEDIUM
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: NONE
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

8.6

Impact Score

2.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-617

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	kde	ksirc	1.3.12	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	5.10	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	6.06	Yes
Operating System	canonical	ubuntu_linux	6.10	Yes

References

http://osvdb.org/33443 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009 Broken Link ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199 Broken Link ([email protected])
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922 Broken Link ([email protected])
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://osvdb.org/33443 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922 Broken Link (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)