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Phex Chat Request Handling Weakness
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA19824
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Release Date:
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2006-04-27
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Last Update:
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2006-05-03
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Popularity:
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4,581 views
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Critical:
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Not 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: | Phex 2.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-2095
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Description:
A weakness has been reported in Phex, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).
The weakness is caused due to an error in restricting the number of chat requests that a user can initiate to another. This can be exploited by malicious users to cause Phex to consume large amount of memory resources by initiating a large number of chat requests to a victim and then log off.
Successful exploitation causes Phex to become unresponsive.
The weakness has been reported in versions prior to 2.8.6.
Solution:
Update to version 2.8.6.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=27021
Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Ian Booth.
Changelog:
2006-05-03: Added CVE reference.
Original Advisory:
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=412751
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