CVE-2004-0891 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=9 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-23.xml http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-604.html https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2188 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17786 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17787 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17790 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11790 https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-8-1/