National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2004-0005
Original release date:03/03/2004
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides unauthorized access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#655974
Name: VU#655974
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#404470
Name: VU#404470
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#226974
Name: VU#226974
US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#190366
Name: VU#190366
External Source: DEBIAN
Name: DSA-434
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20040126 Advisory 01/2004: 12 x Gaim remote overflows
Type: Advisory
External Source: XF
Name: gaim-mime-decoder-oob(14944)
External Source: XF
Name: gaim-mime-decoder-bo(14942)
External Source: XF
Name: gaim-sscanf-oob(14938)
External Source: XF
Name: gaim-yahoodecode-offbyone-bo(14935)
External Source: SLACKWARE
Name: SSA:2004-026
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1008850
External Source: OSVDB
Name: 3736
External Source: SUSE
Name: SuSE-SA:2004:004
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200401-04
External Source: CONECTIVA
Name: CLA-2004:813
External Source: FULLDISC
Name: 20040126 Advisory 01/2004: 12 x Gaim remote overflows
Vulnerable software and versions
 | Configuration 1 |
 | | OR |
| |  | cpe:/a:rob_flynn:gaim:0.75 |
