CVE-2006-6811

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Ubuntu Security Notice 409-1

Posted Jan 16, 2007

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 409-1 - Federico L. Bossi Bonin discovered a Denial of Service vulnerability in ksirc. By sending a special response packet, a malicious IRC server could crash ksirc.

tags | advisory, denial of service

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2006-6811

SHA-256 | a055491065ea57f4b04c1ced3f58041f349e3f872ae274f4be0a15d5fe648853

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2007.009

Posted Jan 13, 2007

Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - 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.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service

systems | linux, mandriva

advisories | CVE-2006-6811

SHA-256 | 972005eb98cf4aeb7bad16b564a697ebd65c7f31c55ac95c64d6c87097857c0f

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KDE Security Advisory 2007-01-09.1

Posted Jan 13, 2007

Authored by KDE Desktop | Site kde.org

KDE Security Advisory - On 2006-12-27, a proof of concept for arbitrary code execution in ksirc was published by Federico L. Bossi Bonin. The published exploit triggers an assertion in ksirc and results in a a NULL pointer dereference (crash) for non-debug builds.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, code execution, proof of concept

advisories | CVE-2006-6811

SHA-256 | bbe226f8526b19cff802b45793648da93e38d02f08a6eb41783cd101bf62423d

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