CVE-2005-2103 Information

Description

Buffer overflow in the AIM and ICQ module in Gaim before 1.5.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via an away message with a large number of AIM substitution strings such as t or n.

Reference

http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=22 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_19_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-589.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-627.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/426078/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14531 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11477 https://usn.ubuntu.com/168-1/