date: 2005-02-17T00:00:00.000Z
summary: AIM/ICQ remote denial of service
discoveredBy: Brandon Scott ("Xeon")
Certain malformed SNAC packets sent by other AIM or ICQ users can trigger an
infinite loop in Gaim when parsing the SNAC. The remote user would need a
custom client, able to generate malformed SNACs.
The OSCAR protocol plugin was modified to drop these malformed packets.