Re: ICQ Buffer Overflow Exploit

[doggystyle () SHAKUR NET (Nick Summy)]

Not difficult at all,  if anyone has ever though about it,  here
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~d95-mih/icq/   is a webpage that  explains a
lot about the ICQ protocol,  it also explains a little about AOL's

- Nick

Bryce Walter wrote:

> Yes, but how tough would it be to write your own client to send msgs on the
> icq network.  MS did it w/ AOL's instant messenger.  :)
>
> > I have been playing with this bug a little, and it seems that ICQ only
> > picks
> > up oversize messages when they are keyed in, and not when they are pasted.
> > maybe it wouldn't be so bad if this was fixed so that at least the client
> > couldn't be used to execute this attack. :-/
>
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