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AOL IM 'Away' Message Security Hole Found

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the oops-they-did-it-again dept.

thedude13 writes " Infoworld is running a story about a major security hole in AOL ® Instant Messenger(TM) and how it handles away messages. AIM is vulnerable to a buffer overflow via the auto-response away message mechanism. Yet another reason to switch to, IMHO, a better client such as gaim."

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  1. Why allways plugging FLOSS? by FedeTXF · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Why does every article mentioning a piece of software have to mention a FLOSS alternative in the blurb?