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Re: cAIM bug
From: Andrew Badr <peanutbadr () HOTMAIL COM>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2000 09:25:16 -0800
I've found that almost any higher ASCII character, when received in an instant message, will crash cAIM (DoS). -PB ------------- hi, friend was using cAIM and we were talking and the message: Previous message was not received by namewithheld because of error: °TK the above was sent when i messaged him quickly then i pasted the error to him in to ask wtf was up and it crashed the program. error happens here (from what i can see): #0 0x2aace418 in aim_parse_incoming_im_middle () from /lib/libfaim.so not really useful, but someone could take it futher if they want -beefnuts ------------ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
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