CVE-2008-1996: Licq

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 11.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Licq Licq: version 0.61 only; version 0.71 only; version 0.75 only; version 0.75.1 only; version 0.75.2 only; version 0.75.3 only; …

Published 2008-04-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.