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CVSSv2

CVE-2006-0138

Published: 09/01/2006 Updated: 05/09/2008
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

aMSN (aka Alvaro's Messenger) allows remote malicious users to cause a denial of service (client hang and termination of client's instant-messaging session) by repeatedly sending crafted data to the default file-transfer port (TCP 6891).

Vulnerability Trend

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Vendor Advisories

Debian Bug report logs - #557754 amsn: CVE-2006-0138 denial-of-services Package: amsn; Maintainer for amsn is Vivia Nikolaidou <nvivia@gmailcom>; Source for amsn is src:amsn (PTS, buildd, popcon) Reported by: Michael Gilbert <michaelsgilbert@gmailcom> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:36:01 UTC Severity: important Tags ...

Exploits

source: wwwsecurityfocuscom/bid/55381/info aMSN is prone to a remote denial-of-service vulnerability A successful exploit of this issue allows remote attackers to crash the affected application, denying service to legitimate users #!/usr/bin/perl use IO::Socket; $x = 0; print q( ************************************** * AMSN REMOTE D ...