Buffer overflow in Xchat

CVE-2011-5129

Heap-based buffer overflow in XChat 2.8.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long response string.

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

Published · last modified .

CVSS v2 metric

CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.077 (94.6th percentile), scored .

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 95th percentile — 94.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2011-5129: held from 0.077 to 0.077.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.077 · newest: 0.077 · change: 0.000

Affected products

  • Xchat — versions 1.2.1, 1.3.9, 1.3.10

Weakness classification (CWE)

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