22877 : Trillian RTF Character Remote DoS
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
3	741	over 6 years ago	over 3 years ago	0 times	90%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2005-09-26	2006-02-01	2006-02-01

Time to Exploit
128 days

Description

Trillian contains a flaw that may allow a remote denial of service. The issue is triggered when an AIM message is received with certain Mac encoded RTF character codes. The codes are: \'d1 \'d2 \'d3 \'d4 \'d5, and can be accidentally sent by by copying text from an OSX application and pasting it to the victim. The victim's client will close immediately upon receiving such characters.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Denial of Service
Impact: Loss of Availability
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 3.1.0.121 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Cerulean Studios

Trillian

3.1.0.120

References

CVE ID: 2006-0543 (see also: NVD)

Credit

Sullo - sullocirt.net - cirt.net

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2006-02-06 | Disagree?

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