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



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 here(1).

Cheers
Steffen

(0) http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-1996

(1) http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146



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