CVE-2005-1891 in Instant Messenger

Summary

The GIF parser in ateimg32.dll in AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 5.9.3797 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a malformed buddy icon that causes an integer underflow in a loop counter variable.

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• Reservation: 06/08/2005
• Disclosure: 06/09/2005
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-25471
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-404 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 5.3
• EPSS: 0.01414
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-1891
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1891
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-1891/