CVE-2013-7049: znc znc-msvc

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2013-7049 is a medium (CVSS 4.3) vulnerability in znc znc-msvc. EPSS estimates a 1.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 76.4% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 23-12-2013
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in fish.cpp in the Fish plugin for ZNC, as used in ZNC for Windows (znc-msvc) 0.206 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long string in a DH1080_INIT message.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.