Denial of Service Vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger
CVE-2002-0785

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor: Aol
Status: Instant Messenger
Vendor: CVE Published:; 12 August 2002

What is CVE-2002-0785?

AOL Instant Messenger is susceptible to a denial of service that allows remote adversaries to crash the app by exploiting the 'AddBuddy' functionality. When an attacker provides an excessively long ScreenName parameter with numerous comma-separated values, it may lead to a buffer overflow, resulting in a crash of the vulnerable application.

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