CVE-2008-0285 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2008-01-15

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 1.2% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ngircd:ngircd::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:ngircd:ngircd::::::::

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2008-0296	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01238.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
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

History

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Subscriptions

Ngircd Ngircd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2008-01-15T23:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T07:39:35.057Z

Reserved: 2008-01-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2008-0285

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2008-01-16T00:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2008-0285

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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