Vulnerability Database

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Total vulnerabilities in the database

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. NOTE: this issue was originally reported as a buffer overflow.

  • Published: Dec 29, 2006
  • Updated: May 9, 2024
  • CVE: CVE-2006-6811
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4.3
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
kde / ksirc 1.3.12 1.3.12.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 6.10 6.10.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 5.10 5.10.x
canonical / ubuntu_linux 6.06 6.06.x