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CVE-2007-2479 (GCVE-0-2007-2479)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2007-05-03 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 13:42
VLAI
Summary
Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro before 3.1.5.1 allows remote attackers to obtain potentially sensitive information via long CTCP PING messages that contain UTF-8 characters, which generates a malformed response that is not truncated by a newline, which can cause portions of a server message to be sent to the attacker.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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http://blog.ceruleanstudios.com/?p=131 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://labs.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabili… third-party-advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017982 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23730 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://osvdb.org/35722 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1596 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
Date Public
2007-04-30 00:00
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