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Bird Chat DoS
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SUMMARY
" <http://birdchat.sourceforge.net/> Bird Chat is a chat client / server
software designed with an easy and simple interface."
A bug in Bird Chat is responsible for allowing the server to be remotely
crashed.
DETAILS
Vulnerable Systems:
* Bird Chat server/client version 1.61
A server is able to crash all clients connected to it by using fake user
names instead of real user names, when sending traffic.
Exploit:
Exploitation is quite simple and only requires the server to send a
username string of a fake user.
An attached proof of concept code written is Java can be downloaded from
<http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/poc/BirdChat[161]DoS-poc.zip>
http://www.autistici.org/fdonato/poc/BirdChat[161]DoS-poc.zip.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The information has been provided by <mailto:fdonato@autistici.org>
Donato Ferrante.
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