mIRC DCC SEND Variant Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

mIRC has been reported to be prone to a variant DCC SEND buffer overflow vulnerability. The issue is said to occur when receiving a filename of excessive length, containing certain characters, and the victim user carries out a specific sequence of actions. It is said that this issue will result in a denial of service condition, however due to the nature of this issue the possibility of code execution has not been entirely ruled out.


 

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