bugtraq - Re: AOL Instant Messenger "Away" Message Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 17:00:29 -0400
From: High Pressure <pressure@...il.com>
To: Thor Larholm <tlarholm@...x.com>
Cc: bugtraq@...urityfocus.com,
	Windows NTBugtraq Mailing List <ntbugtraq@...tserv.ntbugtraq.com>
Subject: Re: AOL Instant Messenger "Away" Message Buffer Overflow Vulnerability


If you're running NT/2000/XP, you can delete everything under the key
and make it read-only -- or just deny everyone access to the key.

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:02:50 -0700, Thor Larholm <tlarholm@...x.com> wrote:
> Deleting the "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\aim" registry key is not a permanent
> mitigation but a per-session change that has to be implemented every
> time AOL Instant Messenger is instantiated. The reason for this is that
> if the HKCR\aim key is missing when AIM is launched AIM will simply
> recreate the key and thus the URL protocol.

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