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CVE-2002-0382 (GCVE-0-2002-0382)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-04-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:49
VLAI
Summary
XChat IRC client allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a /dns command on a host whose DNS reverse lookup contains shell metacharacters.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2002-03-27 00:00
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