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CVE-2006-6811

Date: December 29, 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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (15)

http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6811
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded
http://osvdb.org/33443
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2006-6811

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Weakness Type (CWE)

Reachable Assertion

CWE-617

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): MEDIUM
Authentication (AU): NONE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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