Vulnerability in Gaim Project
CVE-2004-0005
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.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.112 (95.8th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 96th percentile — 95.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.112 · newest: 0.112 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Gaim Project — versions 0.75
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14944 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/226974 (US Government Resource, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-434 (vendor-advisory, Patch, Broken Link, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14942 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_04_gaim.html (vendor-advisory, Broken Link)
- www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php (vendor-advisory, Patch, Mailing List)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/14935 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- marc.info/ (mailing-list, Exploit, Mailing List)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/200401-04 (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- www.securitytracker.com/id (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, Broken Link)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2004-0005?
- CVE-2004-0005 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Gaim Project, classified under Off-by-one Error. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2004-03-03.
- How severe is CVE-2004-0005?
- Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.