CVE-2012-0828

Summary

CVECVE-2012-0828
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-02-21 18:15:00 UTC
Updated2020-03-05 15:00:00 UTC
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in Xchat-WDK before 1499-4 (2012-01-18) xchat 2.8.6 on Maemo architecture could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xchat client crash) or execute arbitrary code via a UTF-8 line from server containing characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gnome Gtk 2.10.4 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.14.7 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.18.9 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.24.7 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.10.4 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.14.7 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.18.9 All All All
Application Gnome Gtk 2.24.7 All All All
Application Xchat Xchat All All All All
Application Xchat Xchat All All All All
Application Xchat-wdk Xchat-wdk All All All All
Application Xchat-wdk Xchat-wdk All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
786391 – (CVE-2012-0828) CVE-2012-0828 xchat: Heap-based buffer overflow by processing UTF-8 line from server containing characters outside BMP MISC bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
oss-security - Re: CVE Request (two ids) -- Xchat-WDK (prior 1499-4 [2012-01-18]) and Xchat-v2.8.6 on Maemo architecture -- Heap-based buffer overflow by processing UTF-8 line from server containing characters outside BMP MISC www.openwall.com Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
CVE-2012-0828 MISC security-tracker.debian.org Third Party Advisory
CVE-2012-0828 - Red Hat Customer Portal MISC access.redhat.com Third Party Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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