Unscored CVE-2001-1419 EUVD-2001-1399GHSA-3jxh-7h2g-h6mg

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an instant me…

Published Mar 20, 2005 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7.2480 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via an instant message that contains a large amount of "<!--" HTML comments.

References

VU#507771 third-party-advisory
aim-html-comments-dos(7233) vdb-entry
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JARL-56TPTN
3398 vdb-entry
20011230 Windows AIM Client Exploits mailing-list
20011002 AIM 0day DoS mailing-list