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CVE-2005-2370

• 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: 2005-07-26 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

Multiple "memory alignment errors" in libgadu, as used in ekg before 1.6rc2, Gaim before 1.5.0, and other packages, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bus error) on certain architectures such as SPARC via an incoming message.

Affected products

• Ekg: 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6_rc1, 2005-04-11 (+1)
• Rob Flynn Gaim: through 1.4.0

References

• http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=20
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16265
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-813
• http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1318
• http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24600
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10456
• http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=20
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112198499417250&w=2
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16265

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