Iret #GP on pre-commit handling failure: the NetBSD case (CVE-2009-2793)

--- This bug was discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team.

Massive exploitation of instant messaging applications proved feasible

Yoann Guillot and myself have been assessing the security of instant communication applications for a couple of years. For quite some time now, we have both suspected that it was possible to conduct both stealth and massive attacks on popular chat clients such as MSN, AIM, Trillian or mIRC.