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CVE-2003-0163

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-05-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

decrypt_msg for the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin 1.15 and earlier does not properly validate a message length parameter, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative length, which overwrites arbitrary heap memory with a zero byte.

Affected products

• Gaim-Encryption: 1.13, 1.14, 1.15

References

• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105013281120352&w=2
• http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0013.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7182
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105013281120352&w=2
• http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0013.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7182

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