CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6811
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-29
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617
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.
Affected configurations
• kde ksirc 1.3.12
• canonical ubuntu linux 5.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)
- CWE-617 Reachable Assertion weakness
References
- http://osvdb.org/33443 Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468 Broken Link
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199 Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://osvdb.org/33443 Broken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml Third Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453 Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468 Broken Link
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt Third Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009 Broken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded Broken Link, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790 Broken Link, Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199 Broken Link
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922 Broken Link
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023 Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry