CVE-2002-0785: Aol Instant Messenger

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an "AddBuddy" link with the ScreenName parameter set to a large number of comma-separated values, possibly triggering a buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Aol Instant Messenger: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.1.2010 only; version 4.2 only; version 4.2.1193 only; version 4.3 only; …

Published 2002-08-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.