Vulnerabilities > CVE-2012-0828 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 9.8 - CRITICAL
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
HIGH
Integrity impact
HIGH
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
xchat-wdk
xchat
gnome
CWE-787
critical

Summary

Heap-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).

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Xchat-Wdk
63
Application
Xchat
50
Application
Gnome
4

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)