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CVE-2005-0472

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Gaim before 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via malformed SNAC packets from (1) AIM or (2) ICQ.

Affected products

• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux: 10.0, 10.1
• Mandrakesoft Mandrake Linux Corporate Server: 3.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 4.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 4.0
• Rob Flynn Gaim: 1.0, 1.0.1, 1.1.1, 1.1.2

References

• http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000933
• http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=10
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110935655500670&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/14322
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-716
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/839280
• 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.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-432.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded

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