5 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.128 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.5%
According to the Windows registry, the remote host has installed on it a version of AOL Instant Messenger that does not properly handle invalid data passed as the location of a ‘smiley’ icon. Such invalid data leads to an application crash, possibly because of a buffer overflow.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if (description) {
script_id(18299);
script_version("1.16");
script_cve_id("CVE-2005-1655");
script_bugtraq_id(13553);
script_name(english:"AIM Smiley Icon Location Remote Denial Of Service");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Windows application is prone to denial of service attacks." );
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"According to the Windows registry, the remote host has installed on it a
version of AOL Instant Messenger that does not properly handle invalid
data passed as the location of a 'smiley' icon. Such invalid data leads
to an application crash, possibly because of a buffer overflow." );
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Unknown at this time." );
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2005/05/19");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2005/05/10");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/06/27 18:42:27");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_end_attributes();
script_summary(english:"Checks for smiley icon location denial of service vulnerability in AIM");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Windows");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2005-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencies("aim_detect.nasl");
script_require_keys("AIM/version");
exit(0);
}
# Test an install.
ver = get_kb_item("AIM/version");
if (ver) {
# There's a problem if the newest version is 5.9.3702 or below.
iver = split(ver, sep:'.', keep:FALSE);
if (
int(iver[0]) < 5 ||
(
int(iver[0]) == 5 &&
(
int(iver[1]) < 9 ||
(int(iver[1]) == 9 && int(iver[2]) <= 3702)
)
)
) security_warning(get_kb_item("SMB/transport"));
}