CVE-2004-0409

HIGH 7.5CVE-2004-0409 · Published 01/06/2004 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2004-0409 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting xchat (xchat).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 9.0%, higher than 95.3% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
xchat xchat	`= 1.8.0= 1.8.1= 1.8.2= 1.8.3= 1.8.4= 1.8.5= 1.8.6= 1.8.7= 1.8.8= 1.8.9= 1.9.0= 1.9.1= 1.9.2= 1.9.3= 1.9.4= 1.9.5= 1.9.6= 1.9.7= 1.9.8= 1.9.9= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.0.3= 2.0.4= 2.0.5= 2.0.6= 2.0.7= 2.0.8`	No fix yet

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the Socks-5 proxy code for XChat 1.8.0 to 2.0.8, with socks5 traversal enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

References

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

xchat

= 1.8.0= 1.8.1= 1.8.2= 1.8.3= 1.8.4= 1.8.5= 1.8.6= 1.8.7= 1.8.8= 1.8.9= 1.9.0= 1.9.1= 1.9.2= 1.9.3= 1.9.4= 1.9.5= 1.9.6= 1.9.7= 1.9.8= 1.9.9= 2.0.0= 2.0.1= 2.0.2= 2.0.3= 2.0.4= 2.0.5= 2.0.6= 2.0.7= 2.0.8

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