ICQ Personal Status Manager Vulnerability
Last Update Date:
28 Jan 2011
Release Date:
22 Apr 2008
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RISK: Medium Risk
A vulnerability has been identified in ICQ, 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 the Personal Status Manager feature when processing a specially crafted status message, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted message.
Impact
- Denial of Service
- Remote Code Execution
System / Technologies affected
- ICQ version 6 (build 6043) and prior
Solutions
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Vulnerability Identifier
- No CVE information is available
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