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CVE-2020-14148

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-06-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-125

Description

The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function.

Affected products

• Barton Ngircd: through 25.0; 26.0-rc1
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32

References

• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/274
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/277
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/275
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/276
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-26-rc2
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00023.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/BJOYV5GHUFJMUVQW3TJKXZ7JPXL4W3ER/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JZRYFJIA6ZKOH7U4K5WH5OL7OKXE4N52/
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/274
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/277
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/275
• https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/276

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