01 Record
CVE-2006-6811
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 10.56% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 95.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-12-29 11:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:42Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-12-29
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-617Reachable AssertionBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- b5adcde3e13a3bea7660d82501958569793906f18715b06e2a1e64b81529161d
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-409-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-409-1
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-922
- www.exploit-db.com3023https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/3023
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-5199http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/5199
- www.securityfocus.com20070109 [KDE Security Advisory] ksirc Denial of Service vulnerabilityhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456379/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com21790http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21790
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2007:009http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:009
- www.kde.orghttp://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20070109-1.txt
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comksirc-privmsg-bo(31134)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/31134
- osvdb.org33443http://osvdb.org/33443
- securitytracker.com1017453http://securitytracker.com/id?1017453
- www.addict3d.orghttp://www.addict3d.org/index.php?page=viewarticle&trace=0&type=security&ID=8468
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200701-26http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200701-26.xml