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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.

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.