PT-2004-1927 · Pidgin · Gaim

Published 2004-10-21 · Updated 2017-10-11 · CVE-2004-0891

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

10

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: gaim versions 0.79 through 1.0.1

Description: The issue is related to a buffer overflow in the MSN protocol handler, which can be triggered by a remote attacker sending an unexpected sequence of MSNSLP messages. This results in an unbounded copy operation that writes to the wrong buffer, potentially causing a denial of service (application crash) and possibly allowing the execution of arbitrary code.

Recommendations: For gaim versions 0.79 through 1.0.1, at the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this issue.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2004-0891

Affected Products

Gaim

References · 10

• http://redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-604.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-23.xml · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-8-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=9 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2188 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-0891 · Security Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17787 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17786 · Note
• https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11790 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17790 · Note