CVE-2002-0741: Psychoid Psybnc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

psyBNC 2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and resource exhaustion) by sending a PASS command with a long password argument and quickly killing the connection, which is not properly terminated by psyBNC.

Affected products

• Psychoid Psybnc: version 2.3 only

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.