PT-2001-2514 · Aol · Aol Instant Messenger

Published 2001-10-06 · Updated 2017-07-11 · CVE-2001-1421

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) versions 4.7 and earlier

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in an application crash. This is achieved by sending a large number of different fonts followed by an HTML HR tag.

Recommendations For versions 4.7 and earlier, update to a version later than 4.7 to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2001-1421

Affected Products

Aol Instant Messenger

References · 7

• 🔥 http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/218920 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1421 · Security Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/530299 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JARL-569MD7 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/247707 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7757 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/3756 · Note