National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2001-1419
Original release date:10/02/2001
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Description
Fixed in Win AIM Beta 4.8.2540 posted Nov. 19th.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
2.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#JARL-56TPTN
Name: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/JARL-56TPTN
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#507771
Name: VU#507771
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: aim-html-comments-dos(7233)
External Source: BID
Name: 3398
Type: Advisory
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20011230 Windows AIM Client Exploits
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20011002 AIM 0day DoS