CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0163

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2003-05-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-05-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

decrypt_msg for the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin 1.15 and earlier does not properly validate a message length parameter, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative length, which overwrites arbitrary heap memory with a zero byte.

Affected configurations

• gaim-encryption gaim-encryption 1.13 • gaim-encryption gaim-encryption 1.14 • gaim-encryption gaim-encryption 1.15

References