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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-6811: KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2006-6811: KSirc: Denial of Service vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/29/2006
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
10/30/2017

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-kde-base-ksirc

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