CVE-ID

CVE-2004-0005

• CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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
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Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20040105 Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Modified (20071113)
Votes (Legacy)
ACCEPT(5) Armstrong, Baker, Cole, Cox, Green
NOOP(2) Christey, Wall
Comments (Legacy)
 Christey> CERT-VN:VU#404470
   URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/404470
   CERT-VN:VU#655974
   URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/655974
   CERT-VN:VU#226974
   URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/226974
   CERT-VN:VU#190366
   URL:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/190366

Proposed (Legacy)
20040318
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