VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2006-6811

CVSS score6.5 MEDIUM

EPSS probability10.57%

CISA KEVNot currently listed

Published2006-12-29

Last modified2026-06-16

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.