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xchat remotely exploitable buffer overflow (Socks5)

Affected packages
1.8 <= xchat2 < 2.0.8_2

Details

VuXML ID 8338a20f-9573-11d8-9366-0020ed76ef5a
Discovery 2004-04-05
Entry 2004-04-23
Modified 2004-05-03

A straightforward stack buffer overflow exists in XChat's Socks5 proxy support.

The XChat developers report that `tsifra' discovered this issue.

NOTE: XChat Socks5 support is disabled by support in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

References

CVE Name CVE-2004-0409
Message 20040405171305.04f19c44.zed@xchat.org
URL http://xchat.org/files/source/2.0/patches/xc208-fixsocks5.diff

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