CVE-2012-0828
highpriority · track · 40EPSS 0.043 · 91 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Heap-based buffer overflow in Xchat-WDK before 1499-4 (2012-01-18) xchat 2.8.6 on Maemo architecture could allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (xchat client crash) or execute arbitrary code via a UTF-8 line from server containing characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8
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affected products (8)
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references (14)
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- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/9cnnvd
- http://xchat.org/Patchcnnvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0828cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2012-0828cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-0828cnnvd
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2012-0828cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/02/01/9enisa_euvd
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2012-0828enisa_euvd
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