CVE-2002-1486

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 9.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the IRC component of Trillian 0.73 and 0.74 allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a large response from the server, (2) a JOIN with a long channel name, (3) a long "raw 221" message, (4) a PRIVMSG with a long nickname, or (5) a long response from an IDENT server.

Affected products

Cerulean Studios Trillian: 0.73, 0.74, 0.725

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0258.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0266.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0268.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q3/0139.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q3/0140.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10150.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10151.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10163.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5765
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5769
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5777
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0258.html

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