Vulnerability CVE-2003-0163
Published: 2003-05-05   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
decrypt_msg for the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin 1.15 and earlier does not properly validate a message length parameter, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a negative length, which overwrites arbitrary heap memory with a zero byte.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Gaim-encryption -> Gaim-encryption 

 References:
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105013281120352&w=2
http://www.rapid7.com/advisories/R7-0013.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7182
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