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AOL Fixes Hole; No Malicious Activity Reports
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Posted by: TotalRecall
AOL has fixed a bug in their Instant Messanger which allowed others to run code on a users machine through a vulernabilty:
AOL has fixed the vulnerability on its servers, however, so users need take no action to be protected, said Andrew Weinstein, a spokesman for AOL.
The vulnerability came about as the result of a buffer overflow in the "add external application" component in AIM which allows users to share programs, said Weinstein.
AOL was notified by an unmentioned source, and has fixed the problem on their servers. Read more at InfoWorld.
Source: 3D Spotlight
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