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Bug 233654 - licq before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service [CVE-2008-1996]
Summary: licq before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service [CVE-2...
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 219708
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename....
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Reported: 2008-08-01 22:50 UTC by jcm
Modified: 2008-08-02 11:56 UTC (History)
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Description jcm 2008-08-01 22:50:58 UTC 
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.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-02 10:53:41 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 219708 ***
Comment 2 Robert Buchholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2008-08-02 11:56:45 UTC 
jcm, thanks for the bug report. To clear things up: We have backported the patch to 1.3.5, and applied it in 1.3.5-r1, which is stable on all relevant architectures.