CVE-2005-1269

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-06-16 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Gaim before 1.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a Yahoo! message with non-ASCII characters in a file name.

Affected products

Rob Flynn Gaim: 0.10, 0.10.3, 0.50, 0.51, 0.52, 0.53 (+44)

References

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=18
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-11.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-734
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:099
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-518.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13931
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A744
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9544
https://usn.ubuntu.com/139-1/
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=18

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