Matthew Smith mICQ up to 0.4.9.4 Message denial of service

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A vulnerability was found in Matthew Smith mICQ up to 0.4.9.4. It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown code block of the component Message Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

mICQ 0.4.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via malformed ICQ message types without a 0xFE separator character.

The bug was discovered 12/13/2002. The weakness was presented 12/23/2002 by FIRST with Debian (Website). The advisory is shared for download at debian.org. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2002-1362. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15048 (Debian DSA-211-1 : micq - denial of service), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published even before and not after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10872) and Tenable (15048).

Productinfo

Vendor

Matthew Smith

Name

mICQ

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 15048
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-211-1 : micq - denial of service
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OpenVAS ID: 53452
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 211-1 (micq)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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05/29/2019 +1763 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Researcher: FIRST
Organization: Debian
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-1362 (🔍)
X-Force: 10872
Vulnerability Center: 6924 - DoS in Matthew Smith mICQ <= 0.4.9 .4 via Malformed ICQ Message, Medium
SecurityFocus: 6392 - mICQ Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 6989 - mICQ "0xFE" separator denial of service

Entryinfo

Created: 07/31/2014 17:19
Updated: 05/29/2019 16:16
Changes: 07/31/2014 17:19 (71), 05/29/2019 16:16 (4)
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