Medium severity · published Dec 29, 2006
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…
6.5
CVSS
10.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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 vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)10.6% · higher than 96% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
KS
Ksirc · Kde
1.3.12 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
5.10; 6.06; 6.10 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6811
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6811
Broken Link
http://osvdb.org/33443
Third Party Advisory
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml
Broken Link
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
Broken Link
http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
Third Party Advisory
http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
Broken Link
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
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