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CVE-2004-0005
- Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 11.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2004-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-193
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.
Affected products
- Gaim Project Gaim: 0.75
References
- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-01/0994.html
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000813
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107513690306318&w=2
- http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-434
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/190366
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/226974
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/404470
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/655974
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_04_gaim.html
- http://www.osvdb.org/3736
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1008850
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