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Licq Multiple Connections Handling Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA30055  
Release Date: 2008-05-05

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Workaround

Software:Licq 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1996 (Secunia mirror)



Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in Licq, 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 incoming TCP connections. This can be exploited to crash the application via an overly large number of TCP connections established to a random port on which Licq is listening.

The vulnerability is reported in version 1.3.5. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Fixed in the development repository.
http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146

Provided and/or discovered by:
Milen Rangelov

Original Advisory:
http://www.licq.org/ticket/1623



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