cve/2006/CVE-2006-6811.md

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.