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AOL You've Got Pictures ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow

Secunia Advisory:

SA18521

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Release Date:

2006-01-17

Last Update:

2006-01-25

Popularity:

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Critical:

Highly critical

Impact:

DoS
System access

Where:

From remote

Solution Status:

Vendor Patch

Software:

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 8.x
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 9.x

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Solution:
Update to AOL 9.0 Optimized and AOL 9.0 Security Edition or apply hotfix.
http://download.newaol.com/security/YGPClean.exe

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Richard M. Smith.

Changelog:
2006-01-25: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
US-CERT VU#715730:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/715730

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