Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2008-1996 to the following vulnerability: licq before 1.3.6 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (file-descriptor exhaustion and application crash) via a large number of connections. Refences: http://www.licq.org/ticket/1623 http://www.licq.org/changeset/6146 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490563 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490711 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28679 http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Apr/0100.html
licq-1.3.4-9.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8
licq-1.3.5-2.fc9 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 9
licq-1.3.4-8.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7
licq-1.3.5-2.fc9 has been pushed to the Fedora 9 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
licq-1.3.4-9.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
licq-1.3.4-8.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
This issue was addressed in: Fedora: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-3909 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-3969 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F9/FEDORA-2008-3812