TippingPoint Zero Day Initiative

Trillian MSN MIME Header Stack-Based Overflow Vulnerability

ZDI-08-031: May 21st, 2008

CVE ID

Affected Vendors

Affected Products

    Trillian

Vulnerability Details

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of Cerulean Studios Trillian Pro. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.

The specific flaw exists within the header parsing code for the msn protocol. When processing the X-MMS-IM-FORMAT header, certain attributes are copied into a buffer located on the stack without any length verification which can eventually lead to code execution with the privileges of the user that is running the application.

Vendor Response

Cerulean Studios states:

Trillian v3.1.10.0 has been released to address these vulnerabilities and is available at http://www.ceruleanstudios.com/downloads/


Disclosure Timeline

    2008-05-05 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
    2008-05-21 - Coordinated public release of advisory

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered by:
    tw33k and n8