Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Dec 29, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-6811
CVE-2006-6811
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.
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Affected products
5cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 2 more
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:5.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.06:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:6.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
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References
13- www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790nvdBroken LinkExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023nvdExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- securitytracker.com/idnvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txtnvdThird Party Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threadednvdBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1nvdThird Party Advisory
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- osvdb.org/33443nvdBroken Link
- www.addict3d.org/index.phpnvdBroken Link
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisoriesnvdBroken Link
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199nvdBroken Link
- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922nvdBroken Link
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