CVE-2008-2841

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2008-06-13
Bugzilla:
452815: CVE-2008-2841 xchat: command execution when xchat is started from the browser

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Argument injection vulnerability in XChat 2.8.7b and earlier on Windows, when Internet Explorer is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the --command parameter in an ircs:// URI.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2841 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of XChat as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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