AIM Buddy Icon Problem

[LordofEchoSide]

Hi, someone I know who is into exploits and such IMed me and told me to wait for his buddy icon to load. as soon as it did, my AIM froze. can anyone give mor more info cause I can't get back on AIM.

[MadMax]

One possibility.....

Icon Crash: aim doesn't check incoming buddy
icons to be under a certain height or width, so you
can send an edited .gif file that may be 1k but claims
to be very large (such as 10000x10000) and end up
freezing the aim client for a large period of time, and
on slow computers cause serious memory issues... i
have tested with larger values (like 65kx65k) but it
appears aim will pop up a memory buffer error
instead of crashing... and apparently sending corrupt
wav files will crash the client in the same manner

http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/218920

[LordofEchoSide]

that was it, fixed it now :)