National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-0160

Overview

Stack-based buffer overflow in the LiveJournal support (hooks/ljhook.cc) in CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21.0, when using unofficial LiveJournal servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by adding the victim as a friend and using long (1) username and (2) real name strings.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Solution

Failed exploitation attempts will likely result in a denial-of-service condition.}

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External Source: XF

Name: centericq-username-bo(31330)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/31330

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-0306

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0306

External Source: BID

Name: 21932

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21932

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20070107 TK53 Advisory #1: CenterICQ remote DoS buffer overflow in LiveJournal handling

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/456255/100/0/threaded

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200701-20

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200701-20.xml

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017545

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1017545

External Source: SREASON

Name: 2129

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2129

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 33408

Hyperlink:http://osvdb.org/33408