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.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- KsIRC 1.3.12 - 'PRIVMSG' Remote Buffer Overflow (PoC) EDB-3023 · dos · Dec 26, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- USN-409-1 vendor-advisory
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
- 3023 exploit
- ADV-2006-5199 vdb-entry
- 20070109 [KDE Security Advisory] ksirc Denial of Service vulnerability mailing-list
- 21790 vdb-entry
- MDKSA-2007:009 vendor-advisory
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
- ksirc-privmsg-bo(31134) vdb-entry
- 33443 vdb-entry
- 1017453 vdb-entry
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
- GLSA-200701-26 vendor-advisory