Microsoft MSN Messenger 1 < 4 - Malformed Invite Request Denial of Service

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4827/info Microsoft's MSN Messenger is an instant messenging client for Windows based machines, based on the Passport system. A vulnerability has been reported in some versions of MSN Messenger. Under some circumstances, it may be possible to crash the...

CVE-2000-0594

CVE-2000-0594 affects the BitchX IRC client. The vulnerability arises from improper cleansing of an untrusted format string in the /INVITE command, allowing a remote attacker to trigger a denial of service by inviting a channel whose name includes special formatting characters. Connected document...

bitchx.dos.txt

There's a small bug in the latest BitchX in which a nasty user can invite you to a channel with a %s in it, causing the client to coredump. As alot of channels/users on irc use the client, I felt I should post a notice about this problem. A small patch is available on www.bitchx.com/downloads.htm...

CVE-2000-0594

BitchX IRC client does not properly cleanse an untrusted format string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an invite to a channel whose name includes special formatting characters...

Hybrid Ircd 5.0.3 p7 - Remote Buffer Overflow

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/581/info Ircd hybrid-6 up to beta 58 has a vulnerability which can allow remote access to the irc server ircd. In most cases this attack results in the attacker gaining the privileges of the user 'irc'. This vulnerability is in the invite handling code...