CVE-2008-3680

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-08-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The decryption function in Flagship Industries Ventrilo 3.0.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and server crash) by sending a type 0 packet with an invalid version followed by another packet to TCP port 3784.

Affected products

Flagship Industries Ventrilo: 1, 1.01, 1.03, 1.04, 1.05, 1.06 (+12)

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ventrilobotomy-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/ventrilobotomy.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/31466
http://secunia.com/advisories/34696
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200904-13.xml
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4156
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495448/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30675
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2365
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44428
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6237
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/ventrilobotomy-adv.txt

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