Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2007-4584 to the following vulnerability: Stack-based buffer overflow in BitchX 1.1 Final allows remote IRC servers to execute arbitrary code via a long string in a MODE command, related to the p_mode variable. References: http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/4321 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25462 http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/2994 http://secunia.com/advisories/26578 http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/36306
This flaw does not affect version of IrcII as shipped in ircii package with Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1.