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.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.069 (94.0th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 94.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.069 · newest: 0.069 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Gentoo Linux — versions 1.4
- Rob Flynn Gaim — versions 0.10, 0.10.3, 0.50
- Slackware Linux — versions 9.0, 9.1, 10.0
- Ubuntu Linux — versions 4.1
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17787 (vdb-entry)
- bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi (vendor-advisory)
- www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-23.xml (vendor-advisory)
- gaim.sourceforge.net/security/ (Vendor Advisory)
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11790 (signature, vdb-entry)
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-8-1/ (vendor-advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17790 (vdb-entry)
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-604.html (vendor-advisory, Vendor Advisory)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17786 (vdb-entry)