CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-2103

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2005-08-16 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2005-08-16
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 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0): 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-131

Description

Buffer overflow in the AIM and ICQ module in Gaim before 1.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an away message with a large number of AIM substitution strings, such as %t or %n.

Affected configurations

• gaim project gaim (< 1.5.0)

Weakness · CWE (1)

CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

CWE-131 Incorrect Calculation of Buffer Size weakness

References