Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74i Buffer Overflow in MSN module exploit
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