Vulnerability CVE-2008-1996
Published: 2008-04-28   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
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.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Low
licq remote DoS
Milen Rangelov
03.05.2008

Type:

CWE-399

 (Resource Management Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
LICQ -> LICQ 

 References:
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1446/references
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28679
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490717
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490563
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/25/1
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:159
http://www.licq.org/ticket/1623
http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3851
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Apr/0100.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00186.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/30236
http://secunia.com/advisories/30055
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