Cerulean Studios Trillian up to 2.01 heap-based overflow

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Cerulean Studios Trillian up to 2.01. It has been declared as critical. Impacted is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to heap-based overflow. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2004-2304. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Cerulean Studios Trillian up to 2.01 (Messaging Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a heap-based overflow vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-122. A heap overflow condition is a buffer overflow, where the buffer that can be overwritten is allocated in the heap portion of memory, generally meaning that the buffer was allocated using a routine such as malloc(). Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Integer overflow in Trillian 0.74 and earlier, and Trillian Pro 2.01 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via a directIM packet that triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

The bug was discovered 02/18/2004. The weakness was shared 02/24/2004 by Stefan Esser (Website). The advisory is shared for download at security.e-matters.de. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-2304 since 08/16/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 6 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 12076 (Trillian DirectIM Packet Remote Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (15303), Tenable (12076), SecurityFocus (BID 9489†), OSVDB (4056†) and Secunia (SA10973†). The entries VDB-20267, VDB-21605, VDB-21606 and VDB-21607 are related to this item. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
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Class: Heap-based overflow
CWE: CWE-122 / CWE-119
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 12076
Nessus Name: Trillian DirectIM Packet Remote Overflow
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Recommended: Upgrade
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01/26/2004 🔍
02/18/2004 +23 days 🔍
02/24/2004 +6 days 🔍
02/25/2004 +1 days 🔍
02/25/2004 +0 days 🔍
02/26/2004 +0 days 🔍
12/31/2004 +309 days 🔍
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08/16/2005 +228 days 🔍
05/31/2006 +288 days 🔍
03/09/2015 +3204 days 🔍
06/19/2019 +1563 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: security.e-matters.de
Researcher: Stefan Esser
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2004-2304 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-2304
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-23204
X-Force: 15303
SecurityFocus: 9489 - Gaim Multiple Remote Boundary Condition Error Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 10973
OSVDB: 4056 - Trillian DirectIM Packet Remote Overflow
SecurityTracker: 1009220
Vulnerability Center: 11724 - Trillian Integer Overflow via a directIM Packet, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/09/2015 16:19
Updated: 06/19/2019 18:11
Changes: 03/09/2015 16:19 (70), 06/19/2019 18:11 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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