National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-6393
Original release date:03/03/2009
Last revised:03/26/2009
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
PSI Jabber client before 0.12.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file transfer request with a negative value in a SOCKS5 option, which bypasses a signed integer check and triggers an integer overflow and a heap-based buffer overflow.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
10.0
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=658912
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20081223 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] PSI remote integer overflow DoS
External Source: MLIST
Name: [oss-security] 20090225 CVE request: Psi <0.12.1 DoS
External Source: MILW0RM
Name: 7555
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-1741
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34301
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 34259
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33311
Type: Advisory
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:006
External Source: MISC
Name: http://jolmos.blogspot.com/2008/12/psi-remote-integer-overflow.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252830