CVE-2002-0006

Public Date:
2002-01-09
Bugzilla:
1616714: CVE-2002-0006 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2002-0006 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Linux 7.0 RHSA-2002:005 2002-01-15
Red Hat Linux 7.1 RHSA-2002:005 2002-01-15
Red Hat Linux 6.2 RHSA-2002:005 2002-01-15
Red Hat Linux 7.2 RHSA-2002:005 2002-01-15

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