7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2012-1836

Published: 22/03/2012 Updated: 14/09/2020
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in dns.cpp in InspIRCd 2.0.5 might allow remote malicious users to execute arbitrary code via a crafted DNS query that uses compression.

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #780880 inspircd: CVE-2012-1836 patch incorrect Package: inspircd; Maintainer for inspircd is inspircd packagers <inspircd@packagesdebianorg>; Source for inspircd is src:inspircd (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Adam <adam@anopeorg> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:09:02 UTC Severity: grave Ta ...
Debian Bug report logs - #667914 CVE-2012-1836: Buffer overflow Package: inspircd; Maintainer for inspircd is inspircd packagers <inspircd@packagesdebianorg>; Source for inspircd is src:inspircd (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@debianorg> Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 12:54:02 UTC Severity: gra ...
Adam discovered several problems in inspircd, an IRC daemon: An incomplete patch for CVE-2012-1836 failed to adequately resolve the problem where maliciously crafted DNS requests could lead to remote code execution through a heap-based buffer overflow The incorrect processing of specific DNS packets could trigger an infinite loop, thus resu ...