vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2016-2087: hexchat, xchat -- security update

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jan 18, 2017
Added
Feb 25, 2019
Modified
Aug 15, 2025

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the client in HexChat 2.11.0 allows remote IRC servers to read or modify arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the server name.

Solutions

debian-upgrade-hexchatdebian-upgrade-xchat
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