A vulnerability has been identified in BitchX, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when processing an overly long MODE message, which could be exploited by remote attackers to compromise an affected system by tricking a user into connecting to a malicious IRC server.
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Vulnerability reported by bannedit.
ChangeLog
2007-08-28 : Initial release
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