CVE-2012-6696

Publication date 25 September 2017

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

inspircd in Debian before 2.0.7 does not properly handle unsigned integers. NOTE: This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix to CVE-2012-1836.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
inspircd	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Not affected
	15.04 vivid	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Fixed 2.0.5-1+deb7u1build0.14.04.1
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
inspircd	Upstream: ed28c1b

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 9.8 · Critical

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H