CVE-2008-6393 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2008-6393 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 479815 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2009:006, published Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 06:40:52 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:15:33 2025