$ cve CVE-2004-0005 JSON

CVE-2004-0005

9.8

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 11.2% (pctl 96)

Patch early

EPSS 11.2% — above the 10% action threshold.

Description

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.

Scoring

CVSS	9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS	11.21% — more likely to be exploited than 96% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-193
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	none known
Published	2004-03-03
Last modified	2026-06-16

Affected (1)

Vendor	Product
gaim project	gaim

References

→ the Explorer · watch your stack · NVD