CVE-2008-2954

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

client/NmdcHub.cpp in Linux DC++ (linuxdcpp) before 0.707 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an empty private message, which triggers an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

Linux Direct Connect: 0.686, 0.699, 0.700, 0.701, 0.702, 0.703 (+3)

References

http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxdcpp/linuxdcpp/Changelog.txt
http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxdcpp/linuxdcpp/client/NmdcHub.cpp.diff?r1=1.14&r2=1.15&sortby=date
http://dcplusplus.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/dcplusplus/dcplusplus/trunk/changelog.txt?r1=1027&r2=1026&pathrev=1027
http://secunia.com/advisories/30907
http://secunia.com/advisories/30918
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30037
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020409
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1020410
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43566
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00101.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00116.html
http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/linuxdcpp/linuxdcpp/Changelog.txt

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