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.
EPSS: 0.010 (60.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gaim-encryption — versions 1.13, 1.14, 1.15
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)
- cve@mitre.org (Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)