[36416] in bugtraq
Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74i Buffer Overflow in MSN module exploit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jérôme" ATHIAS)
Wed Sep 8 16:07:35 2004
Date: 8 Sep 2004 04:38:27 -0000
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From: "Jérôme" ATHIAS <jerome.athias@caramail.com>
To: bugtraq@securityfocus.com
DATE
08/09/2004
PRODUCT
Trillian is a chat client currently supporting IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger. (from readme.txt file)
DETAILS
A buffer overflow vulnerability in basic edition version 0.74i (latest version) occours in the MSN module when receiving a string of around 4096 bytes ended with a newline character from an MSN messenger server. This vulnerability is remotely exploitable but require the use of the man-in-the-middle technique.
EXPLOIT
See attached file trillianbof.c
VENDOR STATUS
I notified this vulnerability to the vendor on 31/08/04 but they haven't reply.
http://unsecure.altervista.org/security/trillian.htm
Regards,
Jérôme ATHIAS
