CVE-2002-1916: Pirch Irc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Pirch and RusPirch, when auto-log is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a nickname containing an MS-DOS device name such as AUX, which is inserted into a filename for saving queries.

Affected products

• Pirch Pirch Irc: any version
• Pirch Ruspirch: any version

Published 2002-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.