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AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a real time messaging service. The AIM client runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is possible to crash the AIM client by sending a specially formatted hyper-link to a user. When the user attempts to launch the malicious hyper-link, the client will crash. This issue appears to be caused by an unchecked buffer in the AIM software. As a result, it may also be possible to exploit this issue to cause attacker-supplied instructions to be executed on the machine of a user running the vulnerable client.

AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) is a real time messaging service. The AIM client runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It is possible to crash the AIM client by sending a specially formatted hyper-link to a user. When the user attempts to launch the malicious hyper-link, the client will crash. This issue appears to be caused by an unchecked buffer in the AIM software. As a result, it may also be possible to exploit this issue to cause attacker-supplied instructions to be executed on the machine of a user running the vulnerable client.