CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0005

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2004-03-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-03-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-193

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 configurations

• gaim project gaim 0.75

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-193 Off-by-one Error weakness

References