CVE-2002-0227 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in KICQ 2.0.0b1, a KDE instant messaging client. An unauthenticated remote attacker can crash the application by sending a specially crafted, malformed message. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and no confidentiality or integrity impact, but a partial availability impact. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an exploit demonstrating the denial-of-service condition is available on ExploitDB. The vulnerability has received minimal community discussion and media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0.0b1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:kicq:kicq:2.0.0b1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:2.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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