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CVE-2002-0741

Published

21 years ago

Last Modified

15 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

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psyBNC 2.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and resource exhaustion) by sending a PASS command with a long password argument and quickly killing the connection, which is not properly terminated by psyBNC..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity: Medium
Base Score: 5/10
Exploit Score: 10/10
Access Vector: Network
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication Required: None
Impact Score: 2.9/10
Confidentiality Impact: None
Availability Impact: Partial
Integrity Impact: None

Products Affected

CPE	Affected	Vulnerable	Excluding	Edit
cpe:2.3:a:psychoid:psybnc:2.3:::::::*	Yes	-	-

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4570
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8912.php
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/269131
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-04/0322.html