Vulnerability in Aol Instant Messenger
CVE-2002-0785
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an "AddBuddy" link with the ScreenName parameter set to a large number of comma-separated values, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.037 (89.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 89th percentile — 89.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.037 · newest: 0.037 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Aol Instant Messenger — versions 4.0, 4.1, 4.1.2010
References
- www.osvdb.org/5109 (vdb-entry)
- archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-05/0086.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, Exploit)
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/9058.php (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/4709 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/259435 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)