# CVE-2008-0285: 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

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2008-01-15 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- http://ngircd.barton.de/doc/ChangeLog
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28673
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28425
- http://arthur.barton.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/ngircd/ngircd/src/ngircd/irc-channel.c?r1=1.40&r2=1.41&diff_format=h
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204834
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27318
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-13.xml

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