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CVE-2006-6811

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.5 Published: 2006-12-29 Modified: 2026-06-16

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 Platforms

Kde KsircCanonical Ubuntu Linux

Weakness Type

CWE-617

References