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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-1739

Original release date:08/23/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Bird Chat 1.61 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via invalid users.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:5.0 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 2.9
Exploitability Subscore: 10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown

Solution

This has been fixed in version 1.61 Security Release.}

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External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 12365
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: bird-chat-dos(17080)
Type: Advisory
External Source: BID
Name: 11010
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/advisory/BirdChat1.61-adv.txt
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040823 DoS in Bird Chat 1.61
Type: Advisory

Vulnerable software and versions

Configuration 1
OR
* cpe:/a:bird_chat:internet_chat_server:1.61
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