Solanum before commit 2ce64de contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a malicious linked server to corrupt memory…
CVE-2026-121602
Solanum before commit 2ce64de contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a malicious linked server to corrupt memory by sending overlong channel names in JOIN or SJOIN messages. Attackers controlling a peer server can trigger strcpy and sprintf overflows in msjoin and mssjoin to crash the ircd or potentially achieve remote code execution.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.5 (v4.0)
- Severity
- High
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 3 November 2026
- Last updated
- 3 November 2026
- Affected
- solanum-ircd · solanum
- Assigner
- VulnCheck
CVSS vectorCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
At the source
References
- https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum/pull/551
- https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum/commit/2ce64debf65e9710e9eea099ada93dbf6655b5ff
- https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum/blob/2ea1382e4262b212a91034258c466f0f6754cd61/modules/core/m_join.c#L507
- https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum/blob/2ea1382e4262b212a91034258c466f0f6754cd61/ircd/channel.c#L371-L385
- https://github.com/solanum-ircd/solanum
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/solanum-before-commit-2ce64de-heap-buffer-overflow-via-join-and-sjoin
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-121602
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