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CVSSv2

CVE-2002-0741

Published: 12/08/2002 Updated: 05/09/2008
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 510
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

psyBNC 2.3 allows remote malicious users 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.

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/4570/info PsyBNC is a freely available, open source IRC bouncing server It is available for the UNIX and Linux operating systems Under some circumstances, it is possible for a remote user to crash a vulnerable server Upon connection to a vulnerable system, if a user sends a password of 9000 or more char ...
/* * psyBNC <= 23 DoS * Information System Advancement in Penetration (ISAP) Labs * By Lunar Fault [ElectronicSouls] * (C) May 19, 2002 * * Legal Notice: * In no way is ElectronicSouls, ISAP, or the author responsible for the * actions or usage of this program The author retains all copyrights to the * contents within includeing this banner, ...