Re: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?

2009-02-18 Thread Darren Reed
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:26:48 +0200, James Matthews said: ICQ is known to have a few remote bugs. I use meebo.com instead of a client due to these issues. At which point you're probably trading known bugs for unknown bugs. ;) Of course, this is a

Re: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?

2009-02-14 Thread Leon Juranic
-Original Message- From: full-disclosure-boun...@lists.grok.org.uk [mailto:full-disclosure-boun...@lists.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Darren Reed Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:01 AM To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug? For some time now I've

Re: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?

2009-02-14 Thread James Matthews
...@lists.grok.org.uk] On Behalf Of Darren Reed Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 10:01 AM To: full-disclosure@lists.grok.org.uk Subject: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug? For some time now I've seen ICQ receive messages, from unknown people, occassionally make the client core dump'. The messages are often

Re: [Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?

2009-02-14 Thread sr.
ohthis reminds of the days subseven would send ICQ pager alertsahh...the gold 'ol days. On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:49 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 23:26:48 +0200, James Matthews said: ICQ is known to have a few remote bugs. I use meebo.com instead of a

[Full-disclosure] ICQ 6 protocol bug?

2009-02-13 Thread Darren Reed
For some time now I've seen ICQ receive messages, from unknown people, occassionally make the client core dump'. The messages are often gibberish - more like the ASCII characters from someone trying to make it execute something it shouldn't. My interpretation of this is unknown parties are trying