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CVE Reference: CVE-2004-0005
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CVE-2004-0005

Description:
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 Status:
Candidate

References:

XF
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14942
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14944
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14935
  http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/14938

SUSE
  http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2004_04_gaim.html

ST
  1008850

SLACKWARE
  http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.361158

OSVDB
  3736

MISC
  http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html

GENTOO
  http://www.linuxsecurity.com/content/view/105690/104/

FULLDISC
  http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2004-01/0994.html

DEBIAN
  http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-434

CONECTIVA
  http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000813

CERT-VN
  404470
  226974
  190366
  655974

BUGTRAQ
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=107513690306318&w=2


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