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Vulnerability record · CVE-2005-3694 · published 20 November 2005

CVE-2005-3694: Centericq vulnerability

CCentericq · Centericq

centericq 4.20.0-r3 with "Enable peer-to-peer communications" set allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via short zero-length packets, and possibly packets of length 1 or 2, as demonstrated using Nessus.

7.8 CVSS 2.0 High EPSS 12% · top 4.0%
7.8CVSS 2.0 base score
12%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
1Affected product versions listed by NVD
20References
16 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

centericq 4.20.0-r3 with "Enable peer-to-peer communications" set allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault and crash) via short zero-length packets, and possibly packets of length 1 or 2, as demonstrated using Nessus.

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected products

1 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334089 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17798
http://secunia.com/advisories/17818
http://secunia.com/advisories/18081
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200512-11.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-912
http://www.osvdb.org/21270
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15649
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100519
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23327
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334089 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/17798
http://secunia.com/advisories/17818
http://secunia.com/advisories/18081
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200512-11.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-912
http://www.osvdb.org/21270
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15649
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100519
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23327

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Related vulnerabilities

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7.5CVE-2007-0160Centericq memory buffer overflow vulnerabilityStack-based buffer overflow in the LiveJournal support (hooks/ljhook.cc) in CenterICQ 4.9.11 through 4.21.0, when using unofficial LiveJournal server…EPSS 4.2%7.5CVE-2005-1852Ekg vulnerabilityMultiple integer overflows in libgadu, as used in Kopete in KDE 3.2.3 to 3.4.1, ekg before 1.6rc3, GNU Gadu, CenterICQ, Kadu, and other packages, all…EPSS 4.7%2.1CVE-2005-1914Centericq vulnerabilityCenterICQ 4.20.0 and earlier creates temporary files with predictable file names, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink…EPSS 0.36%

Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2005-3694), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.