Remote crashes in Yahoo messenger

All versions of Yahoo messenger version 5. Listens on port 5101 on client machine. obviously to offload server traffic for IMs problems: for all of the problems listed below, the traffic is sent to the yahoo messenger opened port, 5101 1. One can crash yahoo messenger by overflowing the message...

Windows AIM Client Exploits

i have generated a list of exploits that can be used to cause an illegal operation on windows aim clients 1. Comment Crash - anyone remember that neat little exploit that involved a large amount of html comment headers "!-- "? to fix it they configured the server to ignore instant messages over...

CVE-2001-1417

AOL Instant Messenger AIM 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service application hang or crash via a buddy icon GIF file whose length and width values are larger than the actual image data...