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
Published Dec 29, 2006
6.5
MEDIUMCVSS 3.1
EPSS 10.57%
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.
Affected products
No data.
Configuration 2
- 5.10
- 6.06
- 6.10
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
Red Hat statement
We do not consider a crash of a client application such as KsIRC to be a security issue.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (19 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 10.57% (0.10568) | 95.65th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 9.99% (0.09993) | 94.99th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Dec 1, 2025 | 5.62% (0.05621) | 90.04th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 4.59% (0.04590) | 88.20th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 5.64% (0.05642) | 83.52th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 18, 2025 | 4.59% (0.04590) | 88.54th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 1.60% (0.01599) | 80.42th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 7.74% (0.07736) | 94.17th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 18, 2024 | 11.07% (0.11070) | 95.35th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 10, 2024 | 5.80% (0.05804) | 93.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 23, 2024 | 7.05% (0.07053) | 93.97th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Apr 3, 2024 | 5.28% (0.05284) | 92.90th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 4.90% (0.04903) | 92.50th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 2, 2023 | 1.19% (0.01190) | 83.59th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 25, 2023 | 1.25% (0.01253) | 83.96th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 1.06% (0.01062) | 81.88th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 5.36% (0.05356) | 89.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 5.36% (0.05356) | 88.93th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 5.36% (0.05356) | 76.09th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (16)
- http://osvdb.org/33443 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBBroken Link
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party Advisory
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468 x_refsource_MISCBroken Link
- http://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVABroken Link
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQBroken LinkThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDBroken LinkExploitThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUThird Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENBroken Link
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-6811 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134 vdb-entryx_refsource_XFThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922 x_refsource_CONFIRMBroken Link
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6811
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-6811
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023 exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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