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CVE-2005-2103

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2005-08-12 gaim -- AIM/ICQ away message buffer overflow

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2005-2103
Phase Assigned(20050630)

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.

References

Source Reference
CONFIRM http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=22
FEDORA FLSA:158543
REDHAT RHSA-2005:589
REDHAT RHSA-2005:627
SUSE SUSE-SR:2005:019
UBUNTU USN-168-1
BID 14531
OVAL oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11477