CVE-2008-3578

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

HydraIRC 0.3.164 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and application crash) via a long irc:// URI.

Affected products

Hydrairc: through 0.3.164; 0.3.057, 0.3.058, 0.3.059, 0.3.060, 0.3.061, 0.3.062 (+160)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/31376
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4126
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30523
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2309
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44204
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6201
http://secunia.com/advisories/31376
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4126
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30523
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2309
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44204
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6201

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