CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-0785

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2002-08-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-08-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an "AddBuddy" link with the ScreenName parameter set to a large number of comma-separated values, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• aol instant messenger 4.0 • aol instant messenger 4.1 • aol instant messenger 4.1.2010 • aol instant messenger 4.2 • aol instant messenger 4.2.1193 • aol instant messenger 4.3 • aol instant messenger 4.3.2229 • aol instant messenger 4.4 • aol instant messenger 4.5 • aol instant messenger 4.6 • aol instant messenger 4.7 • aol instant messenger 4.7.2480 • aol instant messenger 4.8.2616 • aol instant messenger 4.8.2646

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