CVE-2003-1508

CVE-2003-1508 affects mIRC 6.12. A buffer overflow occurs in the DCC get dialog: if the window is minimized and a long filename is opened, it may crash the application, enabling a remote denial-of-service. The available sources (NVD, CVE List) reiterate the same description without providing expl...

(Fw) : mIRC 6.12 (latest) DCC Exploit

this news was found on irchelp, DCC Exploit Affecting mIRC 6.12 : another exploit was identified which can crash even the recently released version 6.12. It only seems to affect people who minimize DCC get dialog windows manually or by default, and then open those windows to get a file with an...