National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0473

Overview

The HTML parsing functions in Gaim before 1.1.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via malformed HTML that causes "an invalid memory access," a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-0208.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 incomplete approximation):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#523888

Name: VU#523888

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/523888

External Source: XF

Name: gaim-html-dos(19381)

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/19381

External Source: REDHAT

Name: RHSA-2005:215

Type: Advisory; Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-215.html

External Source: GENTOO

Name: GLSA-200503-03

Hyperlink:http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200503-03.xml

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 14322

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/14322

External Source: OVAL

Name: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10212

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10212

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11

Hyperlink:http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/index.php?id=11

External Source: BID

Name: 12589

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12589

External Source: FEDORA

Name: FLSA:158543

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded

External Source: SUSE

Name: SUSE-SA:2005:036

Hyperlink:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_36_sudo.html

External Source: MANDRAKE

Name: MDKSA-2005:049

Hyperlink:http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:049

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20050225 [USN-85-1] Gaim vulnerabilities

Hyperlink:http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=110935655500670&w=2

External Source: CONECTIVA

Name: CLA-2005:933

Hyperlink:http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000933

References to Check Content

Identifier:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10212

Check System:http://oval.mitre.org/XMLSchema/oval-definitions-5

Hyperlink:http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/DownloadDefinition?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10212