A vulnerability was found in Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.73/0.74/1.0 (Messaging Software). It has been declared as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code block of the component Ident Daemon. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in the IDENT daemon (identd) in Trillian 0.6351, 0.725, 0.73, 0.74 and 1.0 pro allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long request.

The weakness was disclosed 12/31/2002 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2002-2390 since 10/31/2007. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/12/2018).

A public exploit has been developed in ANSI C. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Messaging Software

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• Cerulean Studios

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• Trillian

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• 0.73
• 0.74
• 1.0

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• free

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