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Bird Chat User Flooding Denial of Service
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12365
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Release Date:
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2004-08-24
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Last Update:
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2005-02-28
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Popularity:
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5,305 views
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Critical:
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Less critical
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Impact:
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DoS
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Bird Chat 1.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-1739
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Description:
Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in Bird Chat, which can be exploited by malicious users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the user handling. This can be exploited by flooding a server with users.
Successful exploitation crashes all chat clients connected to a server.
Solution:
According to the vendor, this has been fixed in version 1.61 Security Release.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/birdchat/
Provided and/or discovered by:
Donato Ferrante
Changelog:
2005-02-28: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/BirdChat1.61-adv.txt
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