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.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.3%, higher than 95% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 10.30% probability · 95th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-617
- Affected
- kde/ksirc · canonical/ubuntu linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
References
- http://osvdb.org/33443Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468Broken Link
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txtThird Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://osvdb.org/33443Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xmlThird Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468Broken Link
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txtThird Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.