CVE-2004-0409

N/A Unknown

Published: June 01, 2004 Modified: April 16, 2026

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Socks-5 proxy code for XChat 1.8.0 to 2.0.8, with socks5 traversal enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200404-15.xml

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.fedoralegacy.org/updates/FC2/2005-11-14-FLSA_2005_123013

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-177.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-585.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.xchat.org/

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11312

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-493

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://mail.nl.linux.org/xchat-announce/2004-04/msg00000.html