CVE-2002-0785

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Summary

CVECVE-2002-0785
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2002-08-12 04:00:00 UTC
Updated2025-04-03 01:03:51 UTC
DescriptionAOL 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.0 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.1 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.1.2010 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.2 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.2.1193 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.3 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.3.2229 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.4 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.5 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.6 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.7 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.7.2480 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.8.2616 All All All
Application Aol Instant Messenger 4.8.2646 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
AOL Instant Messenger AddBuddy Hyperlink Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Vendor Advisory
Neohapsis Archives - Bugtraq - Hole in AOL Instant Messenger - From [email protected] af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 archives.neohapsis.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/5109 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
ISS X-Force Database: aim-addbuddy-bo (9058): AOL Instant Messenger aim:AddBuddy buffer overflow could be used to crash the program af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.iss.net Vendor Advisory
CERT/CC Vulnerability Note VU#259435 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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