KLA10214 DoS vulnerability in ICQ

A buffer overflow was found in ICQ. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code. This vulnerability can be exploited remotely via a specially designed internet shortcut.

Original advisories

Exploitation

Public exploits exist for this vulnerability.

Related products

ICQ

CVE list

CVE-2009-1915 warning

Solution

Update to latest version

ICQ

Impacts

• ACE

Arbitrary code execution. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to executing by abuser any code or commands at vulnerable machine or process.

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• ICQ 6.5