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CVE-2003-0328

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.5)—

EPIC IRC Client (EPIC4) pre2.002, pre2.003, and possibly later versions, allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a CTCP request from a large nickname, which causes an incorrect length calculation.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Epic — Epic4

CWEs

References

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