CVE-2007-3837 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in HydraIRC version 0.3.151, allowing remote IRC servers to trigger a denial of service by sending a specially crafted, long CTCP request containing percent characters. With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of application availability. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.3.151CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hydrairc:hydrairc:0.3.151:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.