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kdenetwork: denial of service

Package(s):kdenetwork CVE #(s):CVE-2006-6811
Created:January 11, 2007 Updated:February 1, 2007
Description: The KsIRC 1.3.12 utility in kdenetwork is vulnerable to a remote denial of service attack that can be caused by a malicious IRC server sending a long PRIVMSG string. This causes an assertion failure and an associated NULL pointer dereference.
Alerts:
Gentoo 200701-26 2007-01-29
rPath rPSA-2007-0007-1 2007-01-15
Ubuntu USN-409-1 2007-01-15
Mandriva MDKSA-2007:009 2007-01-10
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