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decrypt_msg for the Gaim-Encryption GAIM plugin 1.15 and...

Moderate severity Unreviewed Published Apr 29, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database May 5, 2003
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Apr 29, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

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(78th percentile)

Weaknesses

No CWEs

CVE ID

CVE-2003-0163

GHSA ID

GHSA-jjcp-54hc-j4ch

Source code

No known source code

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