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Trillian IRC Server Response Remote Overflow
medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1871
Synopsis
The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow.Description
The remote host is running the Trillian IRC client. Trillian version 0.73 and earlier are vulnerable to a buffer overflow in the IRC module. By operating a malicious IRC server and sending malformed responses, a remote attacker can overflow a buffer and execute code on the server.Solution
No solution is known at this time.Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 1871
Family: IRC Clients
Published: 8/20/2004
Updated: 3/6/2019
Reference Information
BID: 5373