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IRCIT is a terminal based IRC client for Linux and Unix systems. IRCIT contains a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. When a INVITE message is received, the supplied from user data is copied into a fixed buffer of length MAXHOSTLEN. A maliciously formatted message may overflow this buffer and execute arbitrary code as the IRCIT client.

IRCIT is a terminal based IRC client for Linux and Unix systems. IRCIT contains a remote buffer overflow vulnerability. When a INVITE message is received, the supplied from user data is copied into a fixed buffer of length MAXHOSTLEN. A maliciously formatted message may overflow this buffer and execute arbitrary code as the IRCIT client.