Visual IRC 2.0 stack-based overflow

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A vulnerability was found in Visual IRC 2.0 (Chat Software). It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a stack-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-121. A stack-based buffer overflow condition is a condition where the buffer being overwritten is allocated on the stack (i.e., is a local variable or, rarely, a parameter to a function). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Stack-based buffer overflow in Visual IRC (ViRC) 2.0 allows remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via a long response to a JOIN command.

The weakness was released 07/06/2007 by Krystian Kloskowski (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at vupen.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-3612 since 07/06/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by h07 in Python and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at securityfocus.com. It is declared as functional.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (35276) and Exploit-DB (4152).

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Class: Stack-based overflow
CWE: CWE-121 / CWE-119
ATT&CK: Unknown

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Access: Public
Status: Functional
Author: h07
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: vupen.com
Researcher: Krystian Kloskowski
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2007-3612 (🔍)
X-Force: 35276 - Visual IRC JOIN response buffer overflow
SecurityFocus: 24798 - Visual IRC Join Response Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia: 25977 - Visual IRC JOIN Command Response Processing Buffer Overflow, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 37888 - Visual IRC (ViRC) JOIN Command Response Overflow
Vupen: ADV-2007-2467

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

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Created: 03/15/2015 15:58
Updated: 10/27/2017 08:50
Changes: 03/15/2015 15:58 (59), 10/27/2017 08:50 (10)
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