CVE-2008-6393

Summary

CVECVE-2008-6393
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-03-03 16:30:00 UTC
Updated2017-09-29 01:33:00 UTC
DescriptionPSI 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-189

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Jabber Jabber Client All All All All
Application Jabber Jabber Client All All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.1.0 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.11 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.8.6 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.8.7 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9.1 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9.2 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9.3 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi All All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.1.0 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.11 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.8.6 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.8.7 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9.1 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9.2 All All All
Application Psi-im Psi 0.9.3 All All All

References

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Fedora update for psi - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Debian update for psi - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2009:006 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
Gentoo Bug 252830 - net-im/psi <0.12.1 Remote DoS (CVE-2008-6393) CONFIRM bugs.gentoo.org Exploit
software security blog: PSI remote integer overflow MISC jolmos.blogspot.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com Exploit
Psi File Transfer Service Packet Parsing Vulnerabilities - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com Vendor Advisory
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[SECURITY] Fedora 10 Update: psi-0.12.1-1.fc10 FEDORA www.redhat.com
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