CVE-2005-3694 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in CenterICQ 4.20.0-r3 when the "Enable peer-to-peer communications" option is active. Remote attackers can exploit this by sending short, zero-length packets, or potentially packets of length one or two, leading to a segmentation fault and application crash. This vulnerability has a high CVSS score of 7.8, indicating a critical impact with network-based exploitation requiring low complexity and no authentication, resulting in complete availability loss. While no active exploitation is reported, public exploit code exists, and the vulnerability has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.20.0_r3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:centericq:centericq:4.20.0_r3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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