RE: Trillian Remote DoS Attack - AIM

["Joshua Wright" <Joshua.Wright () jwu edu>]

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I was unable to reproduce a Trillian crash in this manner.

Using Trillian 0.74b on Windows XP sp1, test client Windows 2000 sp2
using AOL IM 5.0.2938.

Sent strings "P > O < C", "ee > 3e < 3dsaf", "3 > 3 < 3", "computer >
security < now" using a variety of fonts in AOL IM.  Did not see a
significant jump in CPU or memory utilization.

- -Joshua Wright
Team Leader, Networks and Systems
Johnson & Wales University
Joshua.Wright () jwu edu 

pgpkey: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD44B4A73
fingerprint: FDA5 12FC F391 3740 E0AE BDB6 8FE2 FC0A D44B 4A73



> Impact
> Trillian crashes and you have to restart. Bonus is if you
> keep crashing the person, AIM services will ban them for
> login flooding (Timed Ban).


> #########################
> # Offending Data String #
> #########################
> Send a AOL IM to someone with this string anywhere in the message
> (the spaces must be there)
>
> P > O < C
>
> And it will cause the application to crash. Other data 
> strings do work IE
> ee > 3e < 3dsaf 
> 3 > 3 < 3
> computer > security < now

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