CVE-2004-0005

Critical

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim 0.75 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) octal encoding in yahoo_decode that causes a null byte to be written beyond the buffer, (2) octal encoding in yahoo_decode that causes a pointer to reference memory beyond the terminating null byte, (3) a quoted printable string to the gaim_quotedp_decode MIME decoder that causes a null byte to be written beyond the buffer, and (4) quoted printable encoding in gaim_quotedp_decode that causes a pointer to reference memory beyond the terminating null byte.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability96. percentile11.2%
ProductGaim
PublishedMar 3, 2004
First seenMar 3, 2004

How to fix

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
gaim_project gaim0.75—

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CVE-2004-0005 · Gaim · Dark Radar