Vulnerability in Gaim-Encryption
CVE-2003-0163
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.010 (62.5th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 63rd percentile — 62.5% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Gaim-Encryption — versions 1.13, 1.14, 1.15
References
- www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0013.html (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/7182 (Patch, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)