CVE-2012-6084

Description

modules/m_capab.c in (1) ircd-ratbox before 3.0.8 and (2) Charybdis before 3.4.2 does not properly support capability negotiation during server handshakes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via a malformed request.

References

https://github.com/atheme/charybdis/commit/ac0707aa61d9c20e9b09062294701567c9f41595.patch

http://www.stack.nl/~jilles/irc/charybdis-3.4.2.tbz2

http://www.ratbox.org/download/ircd-ratbox-3.0.8.tar.bz2

http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2612

http://rabbit.dereferenced.org/~nenolod/ASA-2012-12-31.txt

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/01/01/4

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3