inspircd in Debian prior to 2.0.7 does not properly handle unsigned integers. NOTE: This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix to CVE-2012-1836.
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 ...