CVE-2008-0944 (GCVE-0-2008-0944)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-02-25 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:01
VLAI
Summary
Ipswitch Instant Messaging (IM) 2.0.8.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL dereference and application crash) via a version field containing zero.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ipsimene-adv.txt x_refsource_MISC
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/487748/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27677 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3697 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://secunia.com/advisories/28824 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2008-02-07 00:00
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