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CVE-2003-1000

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Jan 05, 2004 | Modified: Apr 03, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
5 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-1000
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/476.html

xchat 2.0.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a passive DCC request with an invalid ID number, which causes a null dereference.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Xchat Xchat 2.0.6 (including) 2.0.6 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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