48752 : mIRC PRIVMSG Message Handling Remote Overflow
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
8	665	over 3 years ago	about 1 year ago	13 times	70%

Timeline

Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2008-10-02	2008-10-02

Keywords

TCP 6667

Description

A remote overflow exists in mIRC. The IRC client fails to check PRIVMSG string lengths resulting in a stack overflow. With a specially crafted request, an attacker can execute arbitrary code resulting in a loss of confidentiality and integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Solution: Upgrade
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Uncoordinated Disclosure

Technical

The victim would need to be enticed into connecting to a malicious IRC server to exploit this vulnerability, or via embedded IRC:// commands within a HTML page.

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.35 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Unknown or Incomplete

References

CVE ID: 2008-4449 (see also: NVD)
Bugtraq ID: 31552
Secunia Advisory ID: 32102
SCIP VulDB ID: 3839
ISS X-Force ID: 45624
Metasploit ID: 48752
Milw0rm: 6654 6654 6666
Exploit Database: 6654 6654 6666
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2008-2736
Other Advisory URL: http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4352
Generic Exploit URL: http://trac.metasploit.com/browser/framework3/trunk/modules/exploits/windows/misc/mirc_privmsg_server.rb?rev=6806
http://www.saintcorporation.com/cgi-bin/exploit_info/mirc_privmsg_hostname

Tools & Filters

Snort	15711
	34471

Credit

securfrog -

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 9.3
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2008-10-07 | Disagree?

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