A vulnerability has been identified in Cerulean Studios Trillian, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or take complete control of an affected system. This issue is caused by a heap overflow error when processing word-wrapping UTF-8 strings, which could be exploited by remote attackers to crash an affected application or execute arbitrary code by sending a specially crafted message to a user (e.g. via the MSN protocol).
Credits
Vulnerability reported by BlurredLogic.com and iDefense Labs.
ChangeLog
2007-06-19 : Initial release
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