Description
Unspecified vulnerability in Xchat 2.6.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified vectors involving the PRIVMSG command. NOTE: the vendor has disputed this vulnerability, stating that it does not affect 2.6.7 "or any recent version"
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 2
- XChat 2.6.7 (Windows) - Remote Denial of Service EDB-2147 · dos · Aug 8, 2006 · verified
- XChat 2.6.7 (Windows) - Remote Denial of Service EDB-2124 · dos · Aug 7, 2006 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- xchat-privmsg-dos(28325) vdb-entry
- http://www.xchat.org/
- 19398 vdb-entry
- 2124 exploit
- 20060809 XChat <= 2.6.4-1 (win version) Remote Denial of Service Exploit (php) mailing-list
- http://forum.xchat.org/viewtopic.php?t=2918
- 2147 exploit
- 1016687 vdb-entry