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>> Trillian Nickname Processing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : Trillian Nickname Processing Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-1368
CVE ID : CVE-2008-2008
Rated as : Critical 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-04-28
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A vulnerability has been identified in Trillian, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise an affected system. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error in when processing messages received from a user with an overly long nickname, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code via a specially message.
Affected Products
Trillian Basic versions 3.x
Trillian Pro versions 3.x
Solution
VUPEN Security is not aware of any vendor-supplied patch.
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1368
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian.
ChangeLog
2008-04-28 : Initial release
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