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CVE-2003-1508

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Buffer overflow in mIRC 6.12, when the DCC get dialog window has been minimized and the user opens the minimized window, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename.

Affected products

• mIRC: 6.12

References

• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3303
• http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mirc/exploit.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/342179
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8880
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3303
• http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mirc/exploit.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/342179
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8880

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