CVE-2006-6811

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...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kdenetwork (MDKSA-2007:009)

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. Updated packages are patched to address this issue. %NASLMINLEVEL...