Overview
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.1 and prior are vulnerable to a denial of service vulnerability. A denial of service occurs when filenames that contain a "%s" are sent to a victim.
Description
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a program for communicating with other users over the Internet. AIM permits users to transfer files from one client to another. Versions 4.1 and prior contained a fromat string vulnerability that made it possible to cause a denial of service to the recipient of a file, when the file transferred contained a "%s" in the name. |
Impact
An attacker can crash the victim's client causing a denial of service. Note that this vulnerability is consistant with a format string vulnerability and there may be the potential to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. |
Solution
Upgrade to a version later than 4.1. |
Vendor Information
CVSS Metrics
| Group | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|
| Base | ||
| Temporal | ||
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References
Acknowledgements
Our thanks to Adam Spun
This document was written by Jason Rafail.
Other Information
| CVE IDs: | CVE-2000-1000 |
| Severity Metric: | 7.50 |
| Date Public: | 2000-10-03 |
| Date First Published: | 2002-04-05 |
| Date Last Updated: | 2002-04-05 21:30 UTC |
| Document Revision: | 11 |