[Full-Disclosure] xchat 2.0.6 crashes with mirc 6.0-6.11 DCC exploit

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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:50:56 +0100 (CET)

xchat 2.0.6 crashes with mirc 6.0-6.11 DCC exploit
the machine on which xchat crashed
Linux 2.4.23
xchat 2.0.6

the machine who did the exploit
mirc 6.12
Windows XP

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what happend:
i starded xchat 2.0.6 on my linux machine and, just for
fun, tried to exploit it via mirc.
if you are not familiar with that: mIRC 6.11 and ealier
6.x crashed on a malformated dcc request. 6.12 fixed that.
oh wonder! xchat closed!!!!
* Quits: <xchat_linux_nick>(who@cares) (Client exited)
(msg in my mirc)
downgraded to 2.0.5 and tried again
--- DCC RECV connect attempt to <mynick> failed
(err=Invalid argument).
this was reproduced on a FreeBSD machine with xchat 2.0.6
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