CVE-2008-0285 (GCVE-0-2008-0285)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-01-15 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 07:39
VLAI
Summary
ngIRCd 0.10.x before 0.10.4 and 0.11.0 before 0.11.0-pre2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted IRC PART message, which triggers an invalid dereference.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://secunia.com/advisories/28673 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/28425 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngirc… x_refsource_MISC
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204834 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27318 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Date Public
2008-01-15 00:00
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