CVE-2008-5280

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 7.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-11-29 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The Local ZIM Server in Zilab Chat and Instant Messaging (ZIM) Server 2.0 and 2.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via crafted requests without required parameters.

Affected products

Zilab Zim Server: through 2.1; 2.0

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/zilabzcsx-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/zilabzcsx.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/29062
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27940
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0664
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0665
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/zilabzcsx-adv.txt
http://aluigi.org/poc/zilabzcsx.zip
http://secunia.com/advisories/29062
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27940
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0664
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0665

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