Vulnerabilities > CVE-2001-1420 - Denial of Service vulnerability in AOL Instant Messenger 4.7

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
aol

Summary

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) 4.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long filename, possibly caused by a buffer overflow.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Aol
1