CVE-2002-1486 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Multiple buffer overflows in the IRC component of Trillian 0.73 and 0.74 allows remote malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) a large response from the server, (2) a JOIN with a long channel name, (3) a long "raw 221" message, (4) a PRIVMSG with a long nickname, or (5) a long response from an IDENT server.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.43974.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Cerulean Studios	Trillian

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:cerulean_studios:trillian:0.73:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:cerulean_studios:trillian:0.74:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:cerulean_studios:trillian:0.725:::::::*

No data.

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Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0258.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0266.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-09/0268.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q3/0139.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2002-q3/0140.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10150.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10151.php
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10163.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5765
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5769
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5777

History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.55507}`	epss `{'score': 0.49183}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-03-18T05:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:28.675Z

Reserved: 2003-02-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-1486

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2002-1486

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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