xchat remotely exploitable buffer overflow (Socks5)

Description:

A straightforward stack buffer overflow exists in XChat's Socks5 proxy support.

The XChat developers report that `tsifra' discovered this issue.

NOTE: XChat Socks5 support is disabled by support in the FreeBSD Ports Collection.

References:

• CVE name CVE-2004-0409
• URL: <http://xchat.org/files/source/2.0/patches/xc208-fixsocks5.diff>
• List post: <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xchat-announce&m=108114935507357>(search)

Affects:

• xchat2 >=1.8 <2.0.8_2

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