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TITLE:
eMule Denial of Service and zlib Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16239

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16239/

CRITICAL:
Highly critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
eMule 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/1324/

DESCRIPTION:
Two vulnerabilities have been reported in eMule, which can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
potentially compromise a vulnerable system.

1) An error in eMule can be exploited to crash the client via a
specially crafted Kad packet.

Successful exploitation requires enabled Kad support.

2) eMule uses a vulnerable version of the zlib library.

For more information:
SA15949
SA16137

The vulnerabilities have been reported in versions prior to 0.46c

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.46c.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA15949:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15949/

SA16137:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16137/

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