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CVSSv2

CVE-2004-0605

Published: 06/12/2004 Updated: 11/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 505
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

Non-registered IRC users using (1) ircd-hybrid 7.0.1 and previous versions, (2) ircd-ratbox 1.5.1 and previous versions, or (3) ircd-ratbox 2.0rc6 and previous versions do not have a rate-limit imposed, which could allow remote malicious users to cause a denial of service by repeatedly making requests, which are slowly dequeued.

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Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/10572/info A denial of service vulnerability exists in multiple ircd implementations This exists because of an issue with the deallocation of buffers used by rate limiting mecahnisms in the ircd This could result in exhaustion of memory resources on the system running the ircd This issue was reported to ...