>> IRC Services Password Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability
Title : IRC Services Password Handling Remote Denial of Service Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2007-3959 CVE ID : CVE-2007-6122 - CVE-2007-6123
Rated as : Low Risk
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2007-11-22
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in IRC Services, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused by an error when processing overly long passwords, which could be exploited by remote attackes to crash an affected server, creating a denial of service condition.
Note: An unspecified security issue introduced in version 5.1.8 has also been reported.
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