Intrusion PreventionIRC.PRIVMSG.Buffer.Overflow
Description
This indicates an attack attempt to exploit a Buffer Overflow vulnerability in some IRC clients.
The vulnerability is due to an input validation error in the application when handling a malformed PRIVMSG message. A remote attacker may be able to exploit this to execute arbitrary code within the context of the application.
Affected Products
Trillian version .73 and .74.
mIRC 6.34
Impact
System Compromise: Remote attackers can gain control of vulnerable systems.
Recommended Actions
Apply appropriate patch or upgrade to non vulnerable version from the vendor.
Or Do not connect to untrusted IRC servers.
Telemetry
Coverage
| IPS (Regular DB) | |
| IPS (Extended DB) |
| ID | 10843 |
| Created | Aug 24, 2005 |
| Updated | Nov 15, 2021 |
| Risk |
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| CVE ID | CVE-2008-4449 CVE-2002-1486 |
| Exploit Prediction Score | 84.48% |
| Default Action | drop |
| Active | |
| Affected OS | Windows |
| Affected App | Other |