CVE-2008-0285

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Summary

CVECVE-2008-0285
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-01-16 00:00:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionngIRCd 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ngircd Ngircd All All All All
Application Ngircd Ngircd All All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
ngircd/ChangeLog at master · ngircd/ngircd · GitHub af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 ngircd.barton.de
Gentoo update for ngircd - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
ngIRCd "PART" Denial of Service Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
ngIRCd: Denial of Service — Gentoo Linux Documentation af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
ngIRCd PART Command Parsing Denial Of Service Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Arthur.Ath.CX CVS Repository - diff - ngircd: ngircd/src/ngircd/irc-channel.c af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 arthur.barton.de Exploit
Gentoo Bug 204834 - net-irc/ngircd < 0.10.4 IRC PART Remote DoS (CVE-2008-0285) af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.gentoo.org
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