CVE-2004-0891 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2004-0891 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having critical severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	10
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Complete
Integrity Impact	Complete
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 62226 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2004:040, published Monday, Nov 15th 2004 18:00 MEST

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:59:36 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:10:17 2023