National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-1996

Overview

licq before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor exhaustion and application crash) via a large number of connections.

Description

More information located: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28679/info

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 28679

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28679

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080410 Re: Re: licq remote DoS?

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490717

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080408 licq remote DoS?

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490563

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20080425 CVE request: licq denial of service

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/25/1

External Source: MANDRIVA

Name: MDVSA-2008:159

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:159

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.licq.org/ticket/1623

Hyperlink:http://www.licq.org/ticket/1623

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146

Hyperlink:http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146

External Source: SREASON

Name: 3851

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3851

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20080410 Re: licq remote DoS?

Hyperlink:http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Apr/0100.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SR:2008:010

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FEDORA-2008-3812

Hyperlink:https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00186.html

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2008-1446

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1446/references

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30236

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30236

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 30055

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/30055