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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2004-0005 in the critical feed json

Multiple buffer overflows in Gaim 0.75 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via (1) octa…

published 2004-02-03 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0005

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
11.2%
EPSS 11.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

Exploit prediction

11.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • marc.info http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107513690306318&w=2 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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