AOL Instant Messenger ASCII-Symbol Interpretation Denial of Service

high Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1258

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a buffer overflow

Description

The remote host is running AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Certain versions of AIM contain a buffer overflow in the packet processing routines for the login process. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow for execution of arbitrary code on the victims machine.

Solution

Upgrade to the latest version of AOL Instant Messenger

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 1258

Family: Internet Messengers

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:aol:aim

Reference Information

BID: 2236

Detections

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