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…
- 7.8HighCVSS base score
- 12.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- CenterICQ 4.20/4.5 - Packet Handling Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 26666dos, linuxpublished 29 Nov 2005Verified
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Timeline
ID reserved
By debian
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.0% · top 3.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- centericq-zero-length-dos(23327) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=100519 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-200512-11 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- 21270 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=334089 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 15649 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-912 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 17798 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 17818 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18081 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-3691 (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)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-3694)Record last updated .