CVE-2005-0966

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CVE-2005-0966

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CVE-2005-0966 at MITRE

Description

The IRC protocol plugin in Gaim 1.2.0, and possibly earlier versions, allows (1) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Gaim markup via irc_msg_kick, irc_msg_mode, irc_msg_part, irc_msg_quit, (2) remote attackers to inject arbitrary Pango markup and pop up empty dialog boxes via irc_msg_invite, or (3) malicious IRC servers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by injecting certain Pango markup into irc_msg_badmode, irc_msg_banned, irc_msg_unknown, irc_msg_nochan functions.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	6.4
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entries: 66609 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 90337 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SA:2005:036, published Fri, 24 Jun 2005 12:01:00
• SUSE-SR:2005:017, published Wed, 13 Jul 2005 11:00:00 +0000

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CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 01:10:05 2013
CVE page last modified: Wed Sep 25 11:10:19 2024