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Vulnerability record · CVE-2008-0285 · published 16 January 2008

CVE-2008-0285: Ngircd vulnerability

NNgircd · Ngircd

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.

5.0 CVSS 2.0 Medium EPSS 1.8% · top 22.4%
5.0CVSS 2.0 base score
1.8%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
14References, 2 tagged exploit
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

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.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
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
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

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Related vulnerabilities

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2008-0285), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-28). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.