AOL Time Warner Thursday applied a server-side patch to a security flaw in the 4.7 and 4.8 versions of its AOL
Instant Messenger (AIM).
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The biggest risk lies in the connection between AOL and AIM. Aug 8 - 6:53 PM ET Seven critical Windows patches next Tuesday, including to Media Player
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The fix plugs a hole that could potentially have allowed destructive Internet worms to infect AIM's 100 million+ users. Because the
patch is a server-side fix, AIM users will not have to download it.
"To our knowledge, the issue has not affected any AIM users," AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein told InternetNews.com Wednesday.
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(which discovered the flaw) says that the patches are easily gotten around by hackers. Core Security also found it in the business-focused AIM Pro and
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Security researchers disclosed a bug in AIM that could enable a hacker to The flaw, according to Core Security, would enable a series of attacks
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