eDonkey Clients 0.44/0.45 - Multiple Chat Dialog Resource Consumption Vulnerabilities

EDB-ID:

22395

CVE:





Platform:

Windows

Date:

2003-03-21


source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7164/info

A vulnerability has been reported for eDonkey clients for Windows that will result in a denial of service condition.

The vulnerability occurs when numerous chat dialog boxes are opened by the eDonkey or Overnet clients. Every open chat dialog box will consume a small amount of memory and CPU cycles. 

An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by connecting to a vulnerable eDonkey user and issuing numerous chat requests.

https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb-bin-sploits/-/raw/main/bin-sploits/22420.zip