# CVE-2005-3694: centericq 4.20.0-r3 with "Enable peer-to-peer communications" set allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault a

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 on Exploit-DB
- Published: 2005-11-20 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23327
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100519
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200512-11.xml
- http://www.osvdb.org/21270
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334089
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15649
- http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-912
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17798
- http://secunia.com/advisories/17818
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18081
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26666

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