AOL didn't listen about the hole in AIM?
19-year-old Utah college student said Thursday that he revealed a security flaw in AOL's popular instant messaging service because he was ignored when he tried to tell AOL.

The problem results when the application is flooded with massive code, triggering a buffer overflow error and allowing other code to be executed.

The company fixed the problem on its AIM server so users did not have to download a patch for their own computers or change their settings, according to Weinstein. "It was resolved within 24 hours. We heard no reports from users that anyone was affected by it," he said.

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