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March 14, 2007

KsIRC Denial of Service Vulnerability


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.

KsIRC as shipped with KDE 3.5.5 or older is affected. KDE 3.5.6 and newer is not affected.

CVE-2006-6811

Posted in IRC News by #!/usr/bin/geek at 2007-03-14 21:45 ET (GMT-5)

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