CVE-2008-0285

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

Ngircd: through 0.10.3; through 0.11.0-pre1

References

http://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngircd/ngircd/src/ngircd/irc-channel.c?r1=1.40&r2=1.41&diff_format=h
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204834
http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog
http://secunia.com/advisories/28425
http://secunia.com/advisories/28673
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27318
http://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngircd/ngircd/src/ngircd/irc-channel.c?r1=1.40&r2=1.41&diff_format=h
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204834
http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog
http://secunia.com/advisories/28425
http://secunia.com/advisories/28673

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