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CVE-2003-1508
Buffer overflow in mIRC 6.12, when the DCC get dialog window has been minimized and the user opens the minimized window, allows remote…
Medium4.3EPSS 2.1%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in mIRC 6.12, when the DCC get dialog window has been minimized and the user opens the minimized window, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long filename.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.1% · top 18% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (4)
- 3303 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20031023 (Fw) : mIRC 6.12 (latest) DCC Exploit (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mirc/exploit.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 8880 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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