CVE-2004-0891
N/A
Published: October 21, 2004 at 04:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:06 PM UTC
4 products affected across 4 vendorsUbuntu LinuxLinuxSlackware Linux
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 7%
Description
Buffer overflow in the MSN protocol handler for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "unexpected sequence of MSNSLP messages" that results in an unbounded copy operation that writes to the wrong buffer.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (9)
x_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=9Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-23.xmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-604.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2188VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17786VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17787VDB Entryx_refsource_XF
Source: [email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17790VDB EntrySignaturex_refsource_OVAL
Source: [email protected]
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11790Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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