CVE-1999-0939

Summary

CVE-1999-0939 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the Debian IRC Epic/epic4 client. Maliciously crafted long strings can be used to cause the client to crash, resulting in a denial-of-service condition. This issue may prevent users from accessing the IRC service until the affected client is restarted or patched. The vulnerability was first identified in 1999 and could potentially impact any Debian user running the Epic/epic4 IRC client. To mitigate this risk, it is recommended that users upgrade to the latest version of the IRC client or apply the relevant patches as soon as possible.

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