From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Mon Apr 28 2003 - 09:02:26 CDT

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TITLE:
Red Hat update for mICQ

READ ONLINE:
http://www.secunia.com/advisories/8677/

CRITICAL:
Not critical

IMPACT:
DoS

WHERE:
From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
RedHat Enterprise Linux AS
RedHat Enterprise Linux WS
RedHat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 for Itanium
RedHat Enterprise Linux ES

DESCRIPTION:
Red Hat has issued updated packages for mICQ, which fix a Denial of
Service vulnerability.

A malicious person can crash mICQ by sending certain ICQ message
types, which do not contain the 0xFE seperator.

SOLUTION:
Updated packages are only available via Red Hat Network:
http://rhn.redhat.com/

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2003-119.html

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