HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

BID:30523

Info

HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 30523
Class: Design Error
CVE: CVE-2008-3578
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Aug 03 2008 12:00AM
Updated: May 07 2015 05:25PM
Credit: securfrog
Vulnerable: HydraIRC HydraIRC 0.3.164
Not Vulnerable: HydraIRC HydraIRC 0.3.165

Discussion

HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

HydraIRC is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability because the application fails to validate user-supplied data.

An attacker may exploit this issue crash the application, resulting in a denial-of-service condition.

This issue affects HydraIRC 0.3.164 and prior versions.

Exploit / POC

HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available:

Solution / Fix

HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor released HydraIRC 0.3.165 to address this issue. Please see the references for more information.


HydraIRC HydraIRC 0.3.164

References

HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Vulnerability

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