FKIE_CVE-2006-6811

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2006-12-29 11:28 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:33
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://osvdb.org/33443Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xmlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017453Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txtThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922Broken Link
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://osvdb.org/33443Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xmlThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txtThird Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threadedBroken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
kde ksirc 1.3.12
canonical ubuntu_linux 5.10
canonical ubuntu_linux 6.06
canonical ubuntu_linux 6.10

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      "value": "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."
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T22:33:51.187",
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