CVE-2002-1953

Publication date

2005-06-28 04:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the goim handler of AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.4 through 4.8.2616 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via escaping of the screen name parameter, which triggers the overflow when the user selects "Get Info" on the buddy.