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Trillian Information Leakage and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Advisory Available in Danish  Advisory Available in German 

Secunia Advisory: SA25086  
Release Date: 2007-05-01
Last Update: 2007-05-07

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Trillian Basic 3.x
Trillian Pro 3.x

CVE reference:CVE-2007-2418 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2478 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-2479 (Secunia mirror)

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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in Trillian, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of sensitive information or compromise a user's system.

1) An error within the copy operation in an IRC message window (by highlighting the text) can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly long URL string consisting of UTF-8 characters.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code, but requires that a user is tricked into e.g. highlighting the malicious URL in an IRC message window.

2) An error within the IRC module can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via an overly long, specially crafted message containing a font face HTML tag with the face attribute set to a long UTF-8 string.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

3) An error within the handling of CTCP PING messages containing UTF-8 characters can be exploited to make the client return a malformed response with no terminating newline character. This could allow the next line to be sent to the attacker instead of the server.

4) An error within the Rendezvous / XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) messaging subsystem can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted message sent to default port 5298/TCP.

Successful exploitation allows execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 3.1. Other versions may also be affected.

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Solution:
Update to version 3.1.5.1.
http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/trillian-v3.1.5.1.exe

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) - 3) Discovered by enhalos and reported via iDefense Labs.
4) Pedram Amini, TippingPoint Security Research Team

Changelog:
2007-05-02: Updated version information in "Solution" section.
2007-05-03: Updated advisory based on additional information from TippingPoint Security Research Team. Added CVE reference. Added new links in "Original Advisory" section. Updated "Solution" section.
2007-05-07: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
Cerulean Studios:
http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/?p=131
http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/?p=129#more-129

iDefense Labs:
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=522

TippingPoint Security Research Team:
http://dvlabs.tippingpoint.com/advisory/TPTI-07-06



Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.

7 Related Secunia Security Advisories

1. Trillian Multiple Vulnerabilities
2. Trillian Display Name Processing Memory Corruption
3. Trillian "aim://" URI Handler Two Vulnerabilities
4. Trillian UTF-8 Word Wrap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
5. Trillian Exposure of User Credentials
6. Trillian Multiple Plug-ins Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
7. Trillian Basic PNG Image Buffer Overflow Vulnerability


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