CVE-2004-1052 - Watchful Exposures

Description

Buffer overflow in the getnickuserhost function in BNC 2.8.9 and possibly other versions allows remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via an IRC server response that contains many (1) ! (exclamation) or (2) @ (at sign) characters.

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11647 http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-595 http://secunia.com/advisories/13149/ http://security.lss.hr/en/index.php?page=details&ID=LSS-2004-11-03 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110011817627839&w=2 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18013