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CVE-2004-0006

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Entered Topic
2004-02-12 Several remotely exploitable buffer overflows in gaim

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2004-0006
Phase Modified(20100819)

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim 0.75 and earlier, and Ultramagnetic before 0.81, allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) cookies in a Yahoo web connection, (2) a long name parameter in the Yahoo login web page, (3) a long value parameter in the Yahoo login page, (4) a YMSG packet, (5) the URL parser, and (6) HTTP proxy connect.

References

Source Reference
BUGTRAQ 20040126 Advisory 01/2004: 12 x Gaim remote overflows
FULLDISC 20040126 Advisory 01/2004: 12 x Gaim remote overflows
MISC http://security.e-matters.de/advisories/012004.html
BUGTRAQ 20040127 Ultramagnetic Advisory #001: Multiple vulnerabilities in Gaim code
CONFIRM http://ultramagnetic.sourceforge.net/advisories/001.html
REDHAT RHSA-2004:032
REDHAT RHSA-2004:033
REDHAT RHSA-2004:045
MANDRAKE MDKSA-2004:006
SGI 20040202-01-U
SUSE SuSE-SA:2004:004
DEBIAN DSA-434
CONECTIVA CLA-2004:813
SGI 20040201-01-U
SLACKWARE SSA:2004-026
GENTOO GLSA-200401-04
CERT-VN VU#297198
CERT-VN VU#371382
CERT-VN VU#444158
CERT-VN VU#503030
CERT-VN VU#527142
CERT-VN VU#871838
BID 9489
OSVDB 3731
OSVDB 3732
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:818
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10222
SECTRACK 1008850
XF gaim-http-proxy-bo(14947)
XF gaim-login-name-bo(14940)
XF gaim-login-value-bo(14941)
XF gaim-urlparser-bo(14945)
XF gaim-yahoopacketread-keyname-bo(14943)
XF gaim-yahoowebpending-cookie-bo(14939)