DoS vulnerability in AOL AIM

Description

An integer underflow vulnerability was found in AIM. By exploiting this vulnerability malicious users can cause denial of service. This vulnerability can be exploited from the network at a point related to the GIF parser via a specially designed buddy icon.

Original advisories

• vulnerability description

Related products

• AOL-Instant-Messenger-(AIM)

CVE list

• CVE-2005-1891
  critical

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