Re: ICQ Buffer Overflow Exploit

From: Nick Summy (doggystyleat_private)
Date: Wed Jan 19 2000 - 11:21:38 PST

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    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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