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Trillian Display Name Processing Memory Corruption

Secunia Advisory: SA29952  
Release Date: 2008-04-25
Last Update: 2008-05-02

Critical:
Highly critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Unpatched

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

CVE reference:CVE-2008-2008 (Secunia mirror)

This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
- Companies can be alerted when a patch is released!


Description:
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian has discovered a vulnerability in Trillian, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a user's system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the processing of "Display Names" in messages. This can be exploited to cause a memory corruption by e.g. setting the "Display Name" to a specially crafted, overly long string and sending an overly long message to another user using the MSN protocol.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code but requires that the attacker is in the contact list of the target user.

The vulnerability is confirmed in version 3.1.9.0 Basic. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution:
Add only trusted users to the contact list.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Juan Pablo Lopez Yacubian

Changelog:
2008-05-02: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2008-04/0315.html



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

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1. Trillian Multiple Vulnerabilities
2. Trillian "aim://" URI Handler Two Vulnerabilities
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4. Trillian Information Leakage and Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
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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