CVE-2008-1996

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 11%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDApr 28

1st PoCApr 8

exploitation probability

11%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

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.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/31627

⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-04/msg00011.html http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Apr/0100.html http://secunia.com/advisories/30055 http://secunia.com/advisories/30236 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3851 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41732 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-May/msg00186.html http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146 http://www.licq.org/ticket/1623 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:159 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/04/25/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490563