KLA10048 DoS vulnerability in AOL AIM

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

Solution

Update to latest version

AIM

Impacts

• DoS

Denial of service. Exploitation of vulnerabilities with this impact can lead to loss of system availability or critical functional fault.

Affected Products

• AOL Instant Meneager versions 5.9.3797 and earlier