National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-5280
Original release date:11/29/2008
Last revised:12/01/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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External Source: BID
Name: 27940
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0665
Type: Advisory
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2008-0664
Type: Advisory
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 29062
Type: Advisory
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.org/poc/zilabzcsx.zip
External Source: MISC
Name: http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/zilabzcsx-adv.txt