Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : xchat (MDKSA-2002:006)

zen-parse discovered a problem in versions 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 of xchat that could allow a malicious user to send commands to the IRC server they are on which would take advantage of the CTCP PING reply handler in xchat. This could be used for denial of service, channel takeovers, and other similar...

X-Chat 1.x - CTCP Ping Remote IRC Command Execution

X-Chat 1.x - CTCP Ping Remote IRC Command Execution source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3830/info X-Chat is a graphical client for IRC. It requires the GTK+ toolkit, and is available for many Linux and Unix operating systems. If a CTCP ping request includes escaped newline characters and...