CVE-2007-0160 (GCVE-0-2007-0160)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-01-10 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 12:12
VLAI
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the LiveJournal support (hooks/ljhook.cc) in CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21.0, when using unofficial LiveJournal servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by adding the victim as a friend and using long (1) username and (2) real name strings.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
mitre CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard E 28/100 over 2329 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/2129 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21932 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0306 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-20070… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017545 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/456255/100… mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://osvdb.org/33408 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
Date Public
2007-01-07 00:00
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