5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.81 High
EPSS
Percentile
98.4%
Heap-based buffer overflow in XChat 2.8.9 and earlier allows remote
attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute
arbitrary code via a long response string.
Author | Note |
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tyhicks | According to the exploit, specific to xchat in KDE Per Novell bugzilla, requires malicious IRC server Fix not available, so I’m not sure if it affects xchat-gnome at this time |
mdeslaur | Not a security issue, see details in redhat bug. |