High
Security advisory
The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2020-14148
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:50 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The Server-Server protocol implementation in ngIRCd before 26~rc2 allows an out-of-bounds access, as demonstrated by the IRC_NJOIN() function.
osv:CVE-2020-14148
Complete source record
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"https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JZRYFJIA6ZKOH7U4K5WH5OL7OKXE4N52/",
"https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/274",
"https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues/277",
"https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/276",
"https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/releases/tag/rel-26-rc2",
"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00023.html",
"https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pull/275"
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