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.

Date published : 2006-12-29

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded