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A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in BitchX. This issue occurs when handling server-supplied data and may result in predefined strings being written to sensitive stack memory. As a result, it may be possible for a malicious IRC server to crash a vulnerable client. Although unconfirmed this vulnerability could potentially be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands within a target client.

A memory corruption vulnerability has been discovered in BitchX. This issue occurs when handling server-supplied data and may result in predefined strings being written to sensitive stack memory. As a result, it may be possible for a malicious IRC server to crash a vulnerable client. Although unconfirmed this vulnerability could potentially be leveraged to execute arbitrary commands within a target client.