CVE-2004-2589

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Gaim before 0.82 allows remote servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long HTTP Content-Length header, which causes Gaim to abort when attempting to allocate memory.

Affected products

Rob Flynn Gaim: 0.10, 0.10.3, 0.50, 0.51, 0.52, 0.53 (+30)

References

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=6
http://secunia.com/advisories/12383
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011083
http://www.osvdb.org/9264
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11056
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17150
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=6
http://secunia.com/advisories/12383
http://securitytracker.com/id?1011083
http://www.osvdb.org/9264
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11056
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17150

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