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Licq Incoming Connections Handling Remote Denial of Service Issue


Title : Licq Incoming Connections Handling Remote Denial of Service Issue
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2008-1446
CVE ID : CVE-2008-1996
Rated as : Low Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-05-07

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A vulnerability has been identified in Licq, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service. This issue is caused due to the application not limiting the number of incoming connections, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application by establishing an overly large number of connections with an affected application.

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Milen Rangelov.

ChangeLog

2008-05-07 : Initial release

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