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>> eMule Kad Packets Remote Denial of Service and Zlib Vulnerabilities
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Title : eMule Kad Packets Remote Denial of Service and Zlib Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1238
CVE ID : GENERIC-MAP-NOMATCH
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-07-27
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Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in eMule, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands.
The first issue is due to a buffer overflow error in the Zlib library when decompressing specially crafted data streams, which could be exploited, via a malformed stream embedded within network communication, to execute arbitrary commands. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2005-0978
The second vulnerability is due to an unspecified error when processing malformed Kad packets, which could be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service.
Affected Products
eMule version 0.46b and prior
Solution
Upgrade to eMule version 0.46c
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1238
http://www.emule-project.net/home/perl/news.cgi?l=1&cat_id=22
Credits
Vulnerabilities reported by the vendor
ChangeLog
2005-07-27 : Initial release
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