CVE-2006-6811
Description
From CVE.org
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.
Statement
We do not consider a crash of a client application such as KsIRC to be a security issue.
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