Bug#686454: CVE-2011-5129: xchat buffer overflow

Hi, I can't reproduce this bug on my amd64 testing debian, using XFCE and xchat 2.8.8-6. With the proof of concept script referenced in the CVE, I get no crash. Only the following line on STDERR repeated thousands of times: *** XCHAT WARNING: Buffer overflow - shit server! The part of the code

Bug#686454: CVE-2011-5129: xchat buffer overflow

Package: xchat Severity: grave Tags: security Hi, the following vulnerability was published for xchat. CVE-2011-5129[0]: | Heap-based buffer overflow in XChat 2.8.9 and earlier allows remote | attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute | arbitrary code via a long