CVE-2008-0285
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 1.8%EU EUVD
ngIRCd 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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- EPSS score
- 1.8% (79th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0296)
- Published
- January 16, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0296 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- ngircd / ngircd
References
- http://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngircd/ngircd/src/ngircd/irc-channel.c?r1=1.40&r2=1.41&diff_format=h(Exploit)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204834
- http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28425
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28673
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27318
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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