Bug#479036: CVE-2008-1996: DoS due to too many connections

2008-05-02 Thread Steffen Joeris
Package: licq Severity: normal Hi The following CVE(0) has been issued against licq. CVE-2008-1996: 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. A proposed patch can be found

Bug#479036: CVE-2008-1996: DoS due to too many connections

2008-05-02 Thread Frank Lichtenheld
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 05:54:18AM +1000, Steffen Joeris wrote: Package: licq Severity: normal The following CVE(0) has been issued against licq. CVE-2008-1996: licq before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor exhaustion and application crash) via