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ngircd -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Affected packages
ngircd < 0.8.2

Details

VuXML ID 7f6dd1bd-7d99-11d9-a9e7-0001020eed82
Discovery 2005-01-26
Entry 2005-02-13

Florian Westphal discovered a buffer overflow in ngircd which can be used remotely crash the server and possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Bugtraq ID 12397
CVE Name CVE-2005-0199
Message http://arthur.ath.cx/pipermail/ngircd-ml/2005-January/000228.html