full-disclosure - Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74i buffer overflow in MSN module

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From: giocasati at interfree.it (Komrade)
Subject: Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74i buffer overflow in MSN module

PRODUCT
Trillian is a chat client currently supporting IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN
Messenger, and Yahoo! Messenger. (from readme.txt file)

DETAILS
A buffer overflow vulnerability in basic edition version 0.74i (latest
version) occours in the MSN module when receiving a string of around
4096 bytes ended with a newline character from an MSN messenger server.
This vulnerability is remotely exploitable but require the use of the
man-in-the-middle technique.

EXPLOIT
See attached file trillianbof.c

VENDOR STATUS
I notified this vulnerability to the vendor on 31/08/04 but they haven't
reply.

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