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eMule Denial of Service and zlib Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA16239
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Release Date:
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2005-07-27
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Popularity:
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12,341 views
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Critical:
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Highly critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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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: | eMule 0.x
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| Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3) | [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] | |
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Description:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in eMule, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise a vulnerable system.
1) An error in eMule can be exploited to crash the client via a specially crafted Kad packet.
Successful exploitation requires enabled Kad support.
2) eMule uses a vulnerable version of the zlib library.
For more information:
SA15949
SA16137
The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 0.46c
Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]
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