Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74 IRC Client Raw Message denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component IRC Client. This manipulation as part of Raw Message causes denial of service. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-1487. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Cerulean Studios Trillian 0.74 (Messaging Software). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component IRC Client. The manipulation as part of a Raw Message leads to a denial of service vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

The IRC component of Trillian 0.73 and 0.74 allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending the raw messages (1) 206, (2) 211, (3) 213, (4) 214, (5) 215, (6) 217, (7) 218, (8) 243, (9) 302, (10) 317, (11) 324, (12) 332, (13) 333, (14) 352, and (15) 367.

The bug was discovered 09/22/2002. The weakness was shared 09/22/2002 by Lance Fitz-Herbert (Website). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2002-1487. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed by l0bstah in ANSI C and been published immediately after the advisory. 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.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10161), Exploit-DB (73), SecurityFocus (BID 5775†) and OSVDB (10799†). The entries VDB-20268 and VDB-20270 are related to this item. If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: l0bstah
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: Lance Fitz-Herbert
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2002-1487 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2002-1487
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-20269
X-Force: 10161
SecurityFocus: 5775 - Trillian IRC Raw Messages Denial Of Service Vulnerability
OSVDB: 10799 - Trillian IRC Component raw Message DoS

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 08/08/2014 12:20
Updated: 05/11/2025 04:09
Changes: 08/08/2014 12:20 (51), 06/13/2018 09:23 (15), 05/11/2025 04:09 (16)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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