Vulnerability in Jabber Client
CVE-2008-6393
PSI Jabber client before 0.12.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request with a negative value in a SOCKS5 option, which bypasses a signed integer check and triggers an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.182 (97.1th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.182 · newest: 0.182 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Jabber Client
- Psi-Im Psi — versions 0.1.0, 0.8.6, 0.8.7
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secunia.com/advisories/34259 (third-party-advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit)
- secunia.com/advisories/34301 (third-party-advisory)
- www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7555 (exploit)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499563 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00071.html (vendor-advisory)
- www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/25/5 (mailing-list, Exploit)
- jolmos.blogspot.com/2008/12/psi-remote-integer-overflow.html
- sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php (Patch)