kicq Telnet connection denial of service
| kicq-telnet-dos (8064) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
kicq is vulnerable to a denial of service attack. If a remote attacker establishes a Telnet connection to the port kicq is listening on, and sends some random data, the attacker can cause the kicq client to crash.
Consequences:
Denial of Service
Remedy:
No remedy available as of June 1, 2013.
References:
- BugTraq Mailing List, Fri Feb 01 2002 - 16:10:14 CST: KICQ 2.0.0b1 can be remotely crashed.
- SourceForge.net: Project: kicq.
- BID-4018: kicq 2.0.0b1 Invalid ICQ Packet Denial of Service Vulnerability
- CVE-2002-0227: KICQ 2.0.0b1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed message.
- OSVDB ID: 8852: KICQ Telnet Random Data DoS
Platforms Affected:
- kicq kicq 2.0.0b1
Reported:
Feb 01, 2002
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