CVE-2005-0965

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.3% 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 gaim_markup_strip_html function in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string that contains malformed HTML, which causes an out-of-bounds read.

Affected products

Rob Flynn Gaim: 1.2.0

References

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=13
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111238715307356&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14815
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:071
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-365.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12999
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11292
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=13
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=111238715307356&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/14815

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