Critical Vulnerability: CVE-2004-0005 — gaim_project — gaim

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.

CVE-2004-0005 is rated CRITICAL severity, requiring immediate attention from security teams.

CVSS Base Score: 9.8/10

Vendors: gaim_project

Products: gaim

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