[VulnWatch] xchat 2.0.6 crashes with mirc 6.0-6.11 DCC exploit
From: Stefan Hecker (s.hecker_at_stud.uni-goettingen.de)
Date: 12/12/03
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 00:54:08 +0100 (CET) To: <vulnwatch@vulnwatch.org>
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
--- 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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