CVE-2004-0005

CRITICAL
9.8
CVSS Score
Published: February 3, 2004 at 05:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:04 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorGaim

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Severity
CRITICAL9.8
Exploit prediction
EPSS 11%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

References (18)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_CONECTIVABroken Link
http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000813
Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQExploit
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107513690306318&w=2
x_refsource_MISCBroken LinkPatchVendor Advisory
http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANBroken LinkPatch
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-434
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/190366
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/226974
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/404470

CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-193

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