Psi 0.12 and prior [Unknown Severity]

By Security Team on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 in Security Notifications | Related Software Packages:

Affects:

  • Psi 0.12 and prior [Unknown Severity]

Description

PSI 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.

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CVE Identifier: CVE-2008-6393
Severity: Unknown Severity

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