Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU30432

Resource exhaustion in mIRC - CVE-2008-7314

Published: January 23, 2020 / Updated: July 17, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU30432

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2008-7314

CWE-ID: CWE-400

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: mIRC Co. Ltd.

Affected software:
mIRC

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

mIRC before 6.35 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long nickname.

Install update from vendor's website.