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LANChat Malformed Data Processing Denial of Service
Secunia Advisory: SA14134
Release Date: 2005-02-04
Last Update: 2005-02-14
Popularity: 5,001 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From local network
Solution Status: Unpatched

Software:LANChat Pro 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-0333


Description:
Donato Ferrante has reported a vulnerability in LANChat Pro Revival, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the handling of malformed data. This can be exploited to crash the process via a UDP datagram containing malformed data.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.666c. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Use another product.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Donato Ferrante

Changelog:
2005-02-14: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/LANChatRevival1.666c-adv.txt


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