CVE-2004-0891 - Odds on Cocktease

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.

Reference

http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-604.html http://gaim.sourceforge.net/security/?id=9 https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2188 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200410-23.xml https://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-8-1/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17790 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17787 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/17786 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11790