CVE-1999-0486

CVE-1999-0486 affects AOL Instant Messenger. A remote attacker sending a malicious hyperlink to a receiving client can trigger a denial of service, potentially crashing the system. Multiple connected sources (Red Hat advisory, CVE lists, NVD/NIST entry) corroborate the basic impact and vector as ...

aimprotocol.txt

http://www.rootshell.com/ Author: [email protected] http://www.foo.org/aim/ A quick note: please, do not kick and scream if this is old news; I don't really watch these things and this is the first I've seen. AOL Instant Messenger doesn't seem to make too much a point of security. Security really isn...

aim-warning-DoS.txt

Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 01:46:17 -0600 From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: various lame DoS attacks Aleph, None of this is as cool as finding buffer overflows in sshd, but it may be of interest to some people. 1 DoS attack against people using AOL This DoS attack come...

aol.aim.url.DoS.txt

Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 22:00:00 -0500 From: Adam Brown To: [email protected] Subject: AOL Instant Messenger URL Crash There is a bug in the newer versions of AOL's Instant Messenger that will cause the client to crash when exploited. All builds of version 2.0 that I've tested seem to be...

Microsoft Windows 9598 NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5 NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4 NT Workstation 4.0 SP5 - Denial of Service (1)

Microsoft Windows 9598 NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5 NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4 NT Workstation 4.0 SP5 - Denial of Service 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/514/info The Windows 98 and Windows 2000 TCP/IP stacks were not built to reliably tolerate malformed IGMP headers. When one is...

Microsoft Windows 9598 NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5 NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4 NT Workstation 4.0 SP5 - Denial of Service (2)

Microsoft Windows 9598 NT Enterprise Server 4.0 SP5 NT Terminal Server 4.0 SP4 NT Workstation 4.0 SP5 - Denial of Service 2 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/514/info The Windows 98 and Windows 2000 TCP/IP stacks were not built to reliably tolerate malformed IGMP headers. When one is...

CVE-1999-0486

Denial of service in AOL Instant Messenger when a remote attacker sends a malicious hyperlink to the receiving client, potentially causing a system crash...

PT-1998-1087 · Aol · Aol Instant Messenger

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: AOL Instant Messenger affected versions not specified Description: The issue allows a remote attacker to cause a denial of service in AOL Instant Messenger by sending a malicious hyperlink to the receiving client, potentially resulting in a...

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