Stack-based buffer overflow in the LiveJournal support (hooks/ljhook.cc) in CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21.0, when using unofficial…

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the LiveJournal support (hooks/ljhook.cc) in CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21.0, when using unofficial LiveJournal servers, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code by adding the victim as a friend and using long (1) username and (2) real name strings.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

4.2% · top 9.0% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-119 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-119 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 2129 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• 21932 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• ADV-2007-0306 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• centericq-username-bo(31330) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• GLSA-200701-20 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
• 1017545 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
• 20070107 TK53 Advisory #1: CenterICQ remote DoS buffer overflow in LiveJournal handling (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• 33408 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 12:12 UTC.