Gentoo: GLSA-200404-15 Low: XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Remote Exploit
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April 19, 2004
XChat is vulnerable to a stack overflow that may allow a remote attacker to run arbitrary code.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200404-15
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Low
Title: XChat 2.0.x SOCKS5 Vulnerability
Date: April 19, 2004
Bugs: #46856
ID: 200404-15
Synopsis
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XChat is vulnerable to a stack overflow that may allow a remote
attacker to run arbitrary code.
Background
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XChat is a multiplatform IRC client.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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net-irc/xchat < 2.0.8-r1 >= 2.0.8-r1
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The SOCKS 5 proxy code in XChat is vulnerable to a remote exploit.
Users would have to be using XChat through a SOCKS 5 server, enable
SOCKS 5 traversal which is disabled by default and also connect to an
attacker'...
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