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Secunia Advisory: SA18734
Release Date: 2006-08-18
Last Update: 2006-08-22
Popularity: 8,329 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Manipulation of data
Privilege escalation
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

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

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

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Solution:
The vendor has issued fixes (see vendor statement in Secunia Research advisory for details).

NOTE: This issue was reportedly fixed in a prior version, but re-introduced in later versions.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Originally discovered by:
* Nicholas Staff

Rediscovered in later version by:
* Carsten Eiram, Secunia Research.

Changelog:
2006-08-22: Updated credits and CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Secunia Research:
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-8/

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



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