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CVE-2007-5226

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2007-11-04 dircproxy -- remote denial of service

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2007-5226
Phase Assigned(20071005)

Description

irc_server.c in dircproxy 1.2.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via an ACTION command without a parameter, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference, as demonstrated using a blank /me message from irssi.

References

Source Reference
MISC http://dircproxy.securiweb.net/ticket/89
CONFIRM https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=319301