Vulnerability in Gentoo Linux
CVE-2004-0891
Buffer overflow in the MSN protocol handler for gaim 0.79 to 1.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an "unexpected sequence of MSNSLP messages" that results in an unbounded copy operation that writes to the wrong buffer.
EPSS: 0.069 (93.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Gentoo Linux — versions 1.4
- Rob_flynn Gaim — versions 0.10, 0.10.3, 0.50
- Slackware Slackware_linux — versions 9.0, 9.1, 10.0
- Ubuntu Ubuntu_linux — versions 4.1
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_FEDORA, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OVAL, signature, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_UBUNTU, vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)