AOL Exploiting bug in AIM Clients

[Joe]

I read this, its horribly outdated, but its rather interesting. The issue is probably long gone (this was from 98-99), but it was still interesting.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=3&url=http%3A//members.ozemail.com.au/%7Egeoffch/security/aim/&ei=hiAAQ_mEM7-4apOJrUo

EDIT -
and heres another one
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A//members.ozemail.com.au/%7Egeoffch/security/aim/allegations.htm&ei=hiAAQ_mEM7-4apOJrUo