AIM Smiley Icon Location Remote Denial Of Service

medium Nessus Plugin ID 18299

Synopsis

The remote Windows application is prone to denial of service attacks.

Description

According to the Windows registry, the remote host has installed on it a version of AOL Instant Messenger that does not properly handle invalid data passed as the location of a 'smiley' icon. Such invalid data leads to an application crash, possibly because of a buffer overflow.

Solution

Unknown at this time.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 18299

File Name: aim_smiley_location_dos.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: windows

Family: Windows

Published: 5/19/2005

Updated: 6/27/2018

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Vulnerability Information

Required KB Items: AIM/version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-1655

BID: 13553

Detections

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