CVE-2008-6393
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 18.3%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 18.3% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-6363)
- Published
- March 3, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-6363 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- jabber / jabber client
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
- psi-im / psi
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252830(Exploit)
- http://jolmos.blogspot.com/2008/12/psi-remote-integer-overflow.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33311(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34119
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34259
- http://secunia.com/advisories/34301
- http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=658912(Patch)
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1741
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/25/5(Exploit)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499563(Exploit)
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7555
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00071.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00080.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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