CVE-2005-0208

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML that causes "an invalid memory access," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0473.

Affected products

Rob Flynn Gaim: 1.1.0, 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3

References

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000933
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=12
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110935655500670&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14386
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/795812
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:049
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-215.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12660
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10477

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