CVE-2002-1487 Denial of service in n/a

Medium 5.0 Published 18 Mar 2003 Updated 8 Aug 2024

Remote malicious IRC servers can crash the Trillian client by sending specific raw IRC messages, causing a denial of service.

Exploited in the wild: Not known
Login needed: Not needed
Attackable: Over the internet
Victim action needed: Not needed
Fix: None listed

What is CVE-2002-1487?

CVE-2002-1487 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Mar 2003. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The IRC component of Trillian 0.73 and 0.74 allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending the raw messages (1) 206, (2) 211, (3) 213, (4) 214, (5) 215, (6) 217, (7) 218, (8) 243, (9) 302, (10) 317, (11) 324, (12) 332, (13) 333, (14) 352, and (15) 367.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2002-1487?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Cerulean Studios Trillian.

How do I fix CVE-2002-1487?

No fix has been published for CVE-2002-1487 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2002-1487 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2002-1487 exists.

Public exploit code: 2 Exploit-DB entries.

Sources

Also known as GHSA-3vwx-8478-gm7p.