CVE-2008-6393
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,
02 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,
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 18.20% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 96.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2009-03-03 16:00Z17 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 11:27Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2009-03-03
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1077e8b649cdde475bb201118ee9df6004a53d872a403118b86787db1d3d2177
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com34259http://secunia.com/advisories/34259
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=252830
- secunia.com34301http://secunia.com/advisories/34301
- www.exploit-db.com7555https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/7555
- www.securityfocus.com20081223 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] PSI remote integer overflow DoShttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499563
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2009:006http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-03/msg00001.html
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-2285https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00071.html
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20090225 CVE request: Psi <0.12.1 DoShttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/02/25/5
- jolmos.blogspot.comhttp://jolmos.blogspot.com/2008/12/psi-remote-integer-overflow.html
- sourceforge.nethttp://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=658912
- secunia.com33311http://secunia.com/advisories/33311
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2009-2295https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-March/msg00080.html
- www.debian.orgDSA-1741http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1741
- secunia.com34119http://secunia.com/advisories/34119
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- psi Fixed in 0.12.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- psi Fixed in 0.12.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.