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CVE-2006-6811

Published: 29 December 2006

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.

Priority

Unknown

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
kdenetwork
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
dapper
Released (3.5.2-0ubuntu6.3)
edgy
Released (3.5.5-0ubuntu1.1)
feisty
Released (3.5.6-0ubuntu9)
upstream Needs triage

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H