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CVE-2002-0006 (GCVE-0-2002-0006)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2003-04-02 05:00 – Updated: 2024-08-08 02:35
VLAI
Summary
XChat 1.8.7 and earlier, including default configurations of 1.4.2 and 1.4.3, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary IRC commands as other clients via encoded characters in a PRIVMSG command that calls CTCP PING, which expands the characters in the client response when the percascii variable is set.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
References
URL Tags
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http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2002-005.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3806 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_HP
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3830 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=101060676210255&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-099 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
Date Public
2002-01-09 00:00
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