CVE-2004-0005

CRITICAL

Gaim - Buffer Overflow

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim 0.75 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) octal encoding in yahoo_decode that causes a null byte to be written beyond the buffer, (2) octal encoding in yahoo_decode that causes a pointer to reference memory beyond the terminating null byte, (3) a quoted printable string to the gaim_quotedp_decode MIME decoder that causes a null byte to be written beyond the buffer, and (4) quoted printable encoding in gaim_quotedp_decode that causes a pointer to reference memory beyond the terminating null byte.

References (18)

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.2228
EPSS Percentile 95.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-193
Status published
Products (1)
gaim_project/gaim 0.75
Published Mar 03, 2004
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026